Scópulus, pen. cor. Diminutiuum. Cæs. An high rocke. That whereat a thing taketh hurt and perisheth.Vertex scopulorum. Catull. Acutus scopulus.Virg. Immanis scopulus. Ouid.Adesus aquis scopulus.Ouid. Piscosi scopuli. Virg.Altus scopulus.Virg. Præacuti Plin. Exesi scopuli, Sen. Sæuus scopulus. Virg.Frequentes. Iuuenal. Sonantes scopuli. Virg.Turriti.Virg.Vomentes æquor scopuli. Lucan. Accedere scopulos.Virg.Appellere ad scopulos, Vide APPELLO.Conscendere scopulum.Virg.Ter scopuli clamorem inter caua saxa dedere.Virg.Ad scopulum ire. Lucret. To runne on a rocke: to perish or to be destroyed.Præcipitem excutere aliquem scopulo.Virg.Immanes scopulos extruere. Claud. Gemini scopuli minantur in cælÛ.Virg.Two rockes stand vp on high into the aire. Scopulus pro scopo, Suet.A marke.Ad eoldem scopulos nauem appellere.Cic.To runne an the same rocke: to take hurt & displeasure by the same matter that an other hath done.Gestare scopulos in corde.Ouid.To be moued with no pitie or compassion: to haue a stouie hart.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
scŏpŭlus, i, m., = sko/pelos,a projecting point of rock; a rock, cliff, crag, esp. a rock, shelf, ledge in the sea. I.Lit. (mostly poet.; not in Cic., but v. infra, II.; cf.: rupes, cautes), in the sea: ut pars (remigum) ad scopulos allisa interficeretur, Caes. B. C. 3, 27 fin.; id. B. G. 3, 13; Poët. ap. Cic. de Or. 3, 41, 166; Verg. G. 3, 261; id. A. 1, 145; 5, 270; Ov. M. 4, 524; 9, 592: frequentes, Juv. 13, 246: vomentes aequor, Luc. 6, 24: immanes, Ov. M. 14, 182; cf. of a promontory, Hor. C. 1, 3, 20; Ov. F. 4, 419: scopuli errantes, of the Symplegades, Val. Fl. 3, 621; 4, 681.—On land: scopuli rupesque cavae, Verg. G. 3, 253; id. A. 4, 445; 12, 531; Sil. 10, 263; Stat. Th. 7, 665; Val. Fl. 6, 632; of the cavern of Cacus, Verg. A. 8, 192: scopulus Mavortis, of the Areopagus, Ov. M. 6, 70: his inmobilior scopulis, of a man hard to move, id. ib. 13, 801: scopulis surdior, Hor. C. 3, 7, 21; cf.: ferrum et scopulos gestare in corde, Ov. M. 7, 33: natus es e scopulis, id. Tr. 3, 11, 3.—II.Trop., a rock, = a difficulty, danger, harm, evil, etc. (freq. in Cic.; also commended by him as a figure): cum neque Musarum scopulos quisquam superarat, Enn. ap. Cic. Brut. 19, 76 (Ann. v. 223 Vahl.): qui te ad scopulum e tranquillo inferat, Ter. Phorm. 4, 4, 8: Syrtim patrimonii scopulum libentius dixerim, Cic. de Or. 3, 41, 163: nec tuas umquam rationes ad eos scopulos, appulisses, ad quos Sex. Titii afflictam navem et in quibus C. Deciani naufragium fortunarum videres, id. Rab. Perd. 9, 25; id. de Or. 2, 37, 154; id. Rosc. Am. 29, 79: in scopulos vitae incidere, id. Consol. Fragm. 2, p. 489 Orell.: (Piso et Gabinius) geminae voragines scopulique rei publicae, id. Pis. 18, 41; cf. Flor. 4, 9, 1: (Pompeius) Ille tremor Ponti et piratarum scopulus, Petr. poët. 123, 240: commeatum publicum in scopulos annonae impingere, Quint. Decl. 12, 22: cujus tribunal scopulus reorum dicebatur, Val. Max. 3, 7, 9: e scopulo cadere,