over-rugged

Updated: May 23, 2025

He is without faults, a man of real character, perhaps a little over-rugged and austere for this libertine age. You can learn from others what an accomplished speaker he is, for ability to speak is an open gift and is recognised at once when the power is displayed, but a man's private life is full of deep recesses and obscure mazes. For the latter in Genitor's case you may hold me as guarantor.

the Younger Pliny - Letters of the Younger Pliny, First Series — Volume 1