Scala, scalæ: vel Scalæ, scalarum. Plaut.Aladder: a payre os staires.Lapsu scalarum exanimatus. Plin. Applicare scalas. Vide APPLICO. Ascendere scalis muros.Virg.Conijcere se sub scalas tabernæ librariæ. Ci. To run vnder the staires of a bookesellers shop.Hærent parietibus scalæ. Vir. The ladders bee fastened to the walles.Induere scalas.Ouid.To beare a ladder on his shoulders, and put out his head betweene the rundels.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
scāla, ae (acc. to the ancient grammarians, not used in sing.; cf. Varr. L. L. 9, 63 and 68; 10, 54 Müll.; Quint. 1, 5, 16 Spald.; Charis. p. 20 P. p. 72 ib.; Diom. p. 315 ib. al.; but v. infra), f. [for scandla, from scando; cf. mala, from mando], mostly plur.: scālae, ārum, a flight of steps or stairs, a staircase; a ladder, scaling-ladder.I.Plur.A.Lit.: scalas dare alicui utendas, Plaut. Rud. 3, 1, 10: scalarum gradus, the rounds of a ladder, Caecin. ap. Cic. Fam. 6, 7, 3: Romani scalis summă nituntur opum vi, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 168 Vahl.); Caes. B. G. 5, 43: scalas ponere,
to fix
, id. B. C. 1, 28; 3, 40: scalas admovere, id. ib. 3, 63; 3, 80; Cic. Mil. 15, 40; id. Phil. 2, 9, 121: murum scalis aggredi, Sall. J. 57, 4; 60, 7; Verg. A. 9, 507; Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 15 et saep.: scalis habito tribus et altis,
up three flights of stairs
, Mart. 1, 118, 7.—2. In partic.: Scalae Gemoniae, v. Gemoniae.— B.Poet., transf., steps: haec per ducentas cum domum tulit scalas, Mart. 7, 20, 20.—II.Sing. (post-class.). A. In gen., a ladder: scalam commodare ad ascendendum, Dig. 47, 2, 55 (54), 4; cf. Aquil. Rom. p. 181 Ruhnk.—B. Esp. 1. Scala gallinaria, a hen-roost, i. e. a crossbar of like form, used for reducing a dislocated shoulder, Cels. 8, 15 med.—2. Of Jacob's ladder, seen in his dream, Vulg. Gen. 28, 12; Hier. Ep. 3, 4; 108, 13.
