Scalpo, non Sculpo dici debere, Author est Diomedes, Vide in dictione SCALPO.
Scalptûra, scalptúræ, f. g. pen. prod. Plin. Grauing in mettal or stone.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
scalpo, psi, ptum, 3, v. a. [root skalp-; Gr. ska/loy, mole; Lat. talpa; cf. scalprum; also Gr. glu/fw]. I.To cut, carve, scrape, scratch, engrave (class.; syn. caelo), said of surface work, = ce/ein; sculpo, of deeper work, high relief, or statuary, = glu/fw: ad pingendum, ad fingendum, ad scalpendum apta manus est, Cic. N. D. 2, 60, 150: Phidiam tradunt scalpsisse marmora, Plin. 36, 5, 4, 15: marmora ac scyphos, id. 35, 11, 40, 128 (Sillig, sculpsit): gemmas, id. 37, 10, 65, 177: flores et acanthi eleganter scalpti, Vitr. 2, 7, 4.—Poet.: sepulcro querelam,
to carve
, Hor. C. 3, 11, 52.—Transf., to scratch: terram unguibus,
to scratch
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dig
, Hor. S. 1, 8, 26; Col. 7, 5, 6: exulceratam verrucam, Suet. Dom. 16: nates, Pompon. ap. Non. 516, 26: caput uno digito, Juv. 9, 133: scalpendo tantum ferreis unguibus, Plin. 13, 7, 14, 56.— II.Trop., in mal. part., to tickle, titillate: tremulo scalpuntur ubi intima versu, Pers. 1, 21.