Blood-red

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sanguĭnĕus, a, um, adj. [sanguis].

Lit., of blood, consisting of blood, bloody, blood- (class.; a favorite word of the Aug. poets): imber, * Cic. Div. 2, 28, 60:

guttae,

Ov. M. 2, 360; 14, 408:

dapes,

Tib. 1, 5, 49:

manus,

Ov. M. 1, 143:

lingua,

id. ib. 3, 57:

humus,

id. H. 16, 334; cf.

mater,

id. M. 3, 125:

hasta,

Stat. Th. 8, 436:

pulmo,

Sen. Agam. 760; Plin. 11, 37, 72, § 188:

caedes,

Ov. M. 13, 85:

rixae,

Hor. C. 1, 27, 4:

bellum,

Val. Fl. 5, 308; 6, 134:

crines,

Stat. Th. 10, 173:

leo,

Val. Fl. 3, 588.—

Blood-thirsty:

vir,

i. e. Hannibal, Sil. 1, 40:

Mavors,

Verg. A. 12, 332:

Mars,

Ov. R. Am. 153.—

Transf., blood-colored, blood-red ( poet. and in postAug. prose):

jubae (anguium),

Verg. A. 2, 207:

cometae,

id. ib. 10, 273:

mora,

id. E. 6, 22:

Luna,

Ov. Am. 2, 1, 23:

sagulum,

Sil. 4, 519:

color vini,

Plin. 14, 9, 11, § 80:

sucus,

id. 21, 16, 56, § 95:

frutices,

id. 16, 18, 30, § 74:

virgae,

Dig. 49, 9, 9:

cristae,

Col. 8, 2, 9:

flores,

id. 10, 242.

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bloody, bloodthirsty, blood-red

vĭŏlo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [vis], to treat with violence (corporeally, and, more freq., mentally), to injure, dishonor, outrage, violate (cf.: laedo, polluo, contamino).

Lit. with persons as objects:

hospites violare fas non putant,

to injure, do violence to, Caes. B. G. 6, 23 fin.:

aliquem,

id. B. C. 3, 98:

patriam prodere, parentes violare,

Cic. Fin. 3, 9, 32.—Esp.: virginem, Auct. ap. Varr. L. L. 6, § 80 Müll.; Tib. 1, 6, 51; cf. Cic. Fam. 9, 22, 1 fin.:

sacrum vulnere corpus,

Verg. A. 11, 591; cf.:

Getico peream violatus ab arcu,

Ov. P. 3, 5, 45.—

Transf.

With places as objects, to invade, violate, profane:

fines eorum se violaturum negavit,

Caes. B. G. 6, 32:

loca religiosa et lucos,

Cic. Rab. Perd. 2, 7:

Iliacos agros ferro,

Verg. A. 11, 255:

Cereale nemus securi,

Ov. M. 8, 741:

silva vetus nullāque diu violata securi,

id. F. 4, 649.—

With the senses as objects, to outrage, shock:

oculos nostros (tua epistola),

Ov. H. 17, 1; cf.:

aures meas obsceno sermone,

Petr. 85.—

With abstract objects, to violate, outrage, break, injure, etc.:

officium,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 38, 109:

jus,

id. Leg. 2, 9, 22:

religionem,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 72, § 186:

virginitatem alicujus,

id. N. D. 3, 23, 59:

vitam patris,

id. Par. 3, 25:

inducias per scelus,

to break, Caes. B. C. 2, 15:

foedera,

Liv. 28, 44, 7; Tib. 1, 9, 2:

amicitiam,

Cic. Phil. 2, 1, 3:

existimationem absentis,

id. Quint. 23, 73; cf.:

nominis nostri famam tuis probris,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 32, § 82:

dignitatem alicujus in aliquā re,

id. Fam. 1, 6, 2; cf.:

injuriae sunt, quae aut pulsatione corpus aut convicio aures aut aliquā turpitudine vitam cujuspiam violant,

Auct. Her. 4, 25, 35.—

Trop. (rare and poet.):

Indum sanguineo ostro ebur,

i. e. to dye of a blood-red, Verg. A. 12, 67 (an imitation of the Homeric elephanta phoiniki miênê, Il. 4, 141).

sanguis, ĭnis (acc. SANGVEM, Inscr. Fratr. Arval. tab. 41, 22; Inscr. Orell. 2270 and 5054; cf. ex-sanguis, acc. -em.— Neutr. collat. form sanguen, ante-class., Enn. ap. Non. 224; id.ap.Cic.Rep. 1, 41, 64; id.ap.Cic. Fin. 5, 11, 31; Cic. de Or. 3, 58, 218; id. ap. Prisc. p. 708 P.; Cato ap. Gell. 3, 7, 19; Att. and Varr. ap. Non. l. l.; Lucr. 1, 837; 1, 860; Petr. 59, 1; Arn. 1, 36), m. [etym. dub.; prob. root sak-, sag-, to drop, flow; cf. Angl.-Sax. sūc-an; Germ. saugen], blood (class. only in the sing.; cf. cruor).

Lit.:

guttam haut habeo sanguinis,

Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 76: quod sanguen defluxerat, Cato ap. Gell. 3, 7, 19:

sine sanguine hoc fieri non posse,

bloodshed, Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 9:

sanguen creari,

Lucr. 1, 837:

nobis venas et sanguen...esse,

id. 1, 860:

in quem (ventriculum cordis) sanguis a jecore per venam illam cavam influit: eoque modo ex his partibus sanguis per venas in omne corpus diffunditur,

Cic. N. D. 2, 55, 138:

fluvius Atratus sanguine,

id. Div. 1, 43, 98:

flumine sanguinis meum reditum interclu, dendum putaverunt,

id. Red. ad Quir. 5, 14; id. Red. in Sen. 3, 6:

nuntiatum est, in foro Subertano sanguinis rivos per totum diem fluxisse,

Liv. 26, 23, 5:

cum rivi sanguis flammam orientem restinguere,

id. 28, 23, 2: pugnatum ingenti caede utrimque, [p. 1627] plurimo sanguine, Liv. 2, 64: haurire sanguinem, to shed (another's) blood:

ad meum sanguinem hauriendum advolaverunt,

Cic. Sest. 24, 54:

tanti sanguinis nostri hauriendi est sitis,

Liv. 26, 13, 14:

nisi hauriendum sanguinem laniendaque viscera nostra praebuerimus,

id. 9, 1, 9:

relicum sanguinem jubentes haurire,

id. 22, 51, 7:

multum sanguinem invicem hausimus,

Curt. 4, 14, 17:

multorum sanguinem hauserunt,

Sen. Ben. 6, 30, 5; Lact. 5, 1, 8: sanguinem dare, to shed (one's own) blood, give (one's) life:

in beluas strinximus ferrum, hauriendus aut dandus est sanguis,

Liv. 7, 24, 4:

dandus invidiae est sanguis,

id. 3, 54, 4:

quid super sanguinis, qui dari pro re publicā posset, rogitantes,

id. 4, 58, 13; Sen. Ira, 1, 2, 2; 3, 18, 2:

sanguinem mittere,

to bleed, let blood, Cic. Att. 6, 1, 2; so Cels. 2, 10; 4, 13;

for which: emittere sanguinem de aure,

Col. 6, 14, 3:

sub caudā,

id. 7, 5, 19; 6, 6, 4; 6, 9, 1:

demere (e capite),

Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 23:

detrahere (ex auriculā),

Col. 6, 14, 3; Cels. 2, 10, 4; 6, 6, 26:

ex adversā parte de auriculā sanguinem mittere,

Col. 7, 10, 2:

supprimere sanguinem,

to stanch, stop, Cels. 2, 10;

for which: cohibere,

id. 8, 4; Plin. 22, 25, 71, § 147:

sistere,

id. 20, 7, 25, § 59; 28, 18, 73, § 239.—

Plur. (late Lat.):

vir sanguinum,

i. e. bloody, violent, cruel, Vulg. 2 Reg. 16, 7, 8; id. Psa. 5, 6; 25, 9; 54, 23; cf.:

libera me de sanguinibus,

i. e. the guilt of shedding blood, id. ib. 50, 15:

vae civitati sanguinum,

id. Ezech. 24, 9.—

Transf. (class.; esp. freq. in the poets).

Blood, i. e. consanguinity, descent, race, stock, family.

Abstr.:

sanguine conjuncti,

blood-relations, relatives by blood, Cic. Inv. 2, 53, 161; Sall. J. 10, 3:

alicui materno a sanguine jungi,

Ov. M. 2, 368:

alicui sanguine cohaerere,

Quint. 8, 3, 75:

progeniem Trojano a sanguine duci,

Verg. A. 1, 19; cf.:

genus alto a sanguine Teucri,

id. ib. 4, 230:

Semiramio Polydaemona sanguine cretum,

Ov. M. 5, 85:

sanguine cretus Sisyphio,

id. ib. 13, 31:

nostri quoque sanguinis auctor Juppiter est,

id. ib. 13, 142:

nec iis tantum quos sanguine attingit amandus,

Plin. Ep. 7, 24, 2:

sanguinem sociare,

Liv. 4, 4, 6:

Tiridates sanguinis ejusdem,

Tac. A. 6, 32.—

Concr., a descendant, offspring: o pater, o genitor, o sanguen dis oriundum! Enn. ap. Cic. Rep. 1, 41, 64; and id. ap. Prisc. p. 708 P. (Ann. v. 117 Vahl.); cf.:

non magis in alienis, quam in proximis ac sanguine ipso suo exerceret,

Liv. 7, 4, 3:

in suum sanguinem saevire,

id. 40, 5, 1:

Alexandri sanguis et stirps,

Curt. 10, 6, 10:

suum sanguinem perditum ire,

Tac. A. 4, 66; 3, 4:

ne secus quam suum sanguinem (eum) foveret ac tolleret,

id. ib. 4, 8; Vell. 1, 10, 5; Val. Max. 5, 9, 4:

seu deos regesve canit, deorum Sanguinem, etc.,

Hor. C. 4, 2, 14: clarus Anchisae Venerisque sanguis (i. e. Æneas), id. C. S. 50: regius sanguis (i. e. Europa), id. C. 3, 27, 65: vos, o Pompilius sanguis (i. e. the Pisos), id. A. P. 292:

non ego, pauperum Sanguis parentum,

id. C. 2, 20, 6:

pro sanguine tuo,

Ov. M. 5, 515:

sanguis meus,

Verg. A. 6, 836:

tuus,

Tib. 1, 6, 66; Stat. Th. 3, 559.—

Of other fluids (rare):

et viridis nemori sanguis decedit et herbis,

Manil. 5, 212:

Baccheus,

i. e. wine, Stat. Th. 1, 329; cf. Plin. 14, 5, 7, § 58:

Pallas amat turgentes sanguine baccas,

Nemes. Ecl. 2, 50.—

Trop., vigor, strength, force, spirit, life (class.), Plaut. Bacch. 1, 2, 45:

amisimus, mi Pomponi, omnem non modo sucum ac sanguinem, sed etiam colorem et speciem pristinam civitatis,

Cic. Att. 4, 18, 2 (4, 16, 10); cf.

Sall. Fragm. Or. Lepidi, § 25: vos o, quibus integer aevi Sanguis, ait, solidaeque suo stant robore vires,

Verg. A. 2, 639: quae cum de sanguine detraxisset aerarii, had bled the treasury (the figure taken from blood-letting), Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 36, § 83; cf.: cum ex aphaireseôs provinciam curarit, sanguinem miserit, etc., id. Att. 6, 1, 2:

missus est sanguis invidiae sine dolore,

id. ib. 1, 16, 11:

qui ab illo pestifero ac perdito civi jam pridem rei publicae sanguine saginantur,

id. Sest. 36, 78; cf.:

illa in agendis causis jam detrita: Jugulum petere et Sanguinem mittere...nec offendunt tamen,

Quint. 8, 6, 51.—Of vigor, force of style:

sucus ille et sanguis incorruptus usque ad hanc aetatem oratorum fuit, in quā naturalis inesset, non fucatus nitor,

Cic. Brut. 9, 36: orationis subtilitas etsi non plurimi sanguinis est, etc., id. Or. 23, 76:

sanguine et viribus niteat,

Quint. 8, 3, 6; so (with vires) id. 10, 2, 12:

Calvus metuens, ne vitiosum colligeret, etiam verum sanguinem deperdebat,

Cic. Brut. 82, 283:

dicta plena sanguinis,

Quint. 11, 1, 34:

sanguinem ipsum ac medullam verborum ejus eruere atque introspicere penitus,

Gell. 18, 4, 2.

crŭentus, a, um, adj. [cruor], spotted, covered, or stained with blood, bloody.

Prop. (freq. and class.):

cruentus sanguine civium Romanorum,

Cic. Phil. 4, 2, 4; cf.:

sanguine fraterno,

Hor. S. 2, 5, 15:

caede filii,

Just. 38, 8, 4:

cadaver Clodii,

Cic. Mil. 13, 33:

vehiculum,

Liv. 1, 48, 8:

gladius,

Quint. 4, 2, 13; 6, 1, 30:

praetexta C. Caesaris,

id. ib. §

31: vestis,

id. 5, 9, 1:

busta,

Prop. 2, 13 (3, 5), 38:

sputa,

id. 4 (5), 5, 68 et saep.:

victoria,

Sall. C. 58, 21: pax, Tac. A. 1, 10:

iter,

id. H. 1, 6:

epistulae,

id. A. 3, 44:

aspectu Oceanus,

id. ib. 14, 32 et saep.:

gaudens Bellona cruentis,

in shedding blood, Hor. S. 2, 3, 223.— Comp.:

vomica,

Cels. 2, 8. —

Transf.

Delighting in blood, blood-thirsty, cruel ( poet.):

Mars,

Hor. C. 2, 14, 13:

hostis,

id. ib. 1, 2, 39; Sen. Cons. Marc. 20, 3:

ille (Achilles) ferox belloque cruentior ipso,

Ov. M. 12, 592.—

Of abstract subjects, bloody, cruel:

ira,

Hor. C. 3, 2, 11:

bella,

Just. 29, 3, 3.— Comp.:

bellum,

Vell. 2, 71, 2.— Sup.:

ille cruentissimus Romano nomine dies,

Vell. 2, 52, 2.—

Spotted or stained with blood, polluted: insigne summi capitis, * Lucr. 5, 1137.—

Bloodred, red:

myrta,

the red myrtle-berry, Verg. G. 1, 306.— Advv.

crŭentē (post-Aug.), cruelly, severely, Just. 39, 3, 8; 23, 2, 7.— Comp., Sen. Ben. 5, 16, 5; Vop. Aur. 21.— Sup., Oros. 1, 17.—

crŭenter, the same, App. M. 3, p. 73.

crŭento, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [cruentus], to make bloody, to spot with blood (class.).

Lit.: vigiles, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 1, 4:

manus suorum sanguine,

Nep. Epam. 10, 3; cf. Liv. 23, 9, 4, and Tac. H. 1, 58 fin.:

cornipedem ferratā calce,

Sil. 17, 541:

gladium,

Cic. Inv. 2, 4, 14; cf.

tela,

Ov. M. 8, 424:

ōs,

id. ib. 4, 104:

dextras,

id. ib. 11, 23:

cruentati redeunt,

id. ib. 3, 572:

ut sequenti die Luna se in Aquario cruentaret,

would appear to be stained with blood, Suet. Dom. 16.—

Trop.:

haec te lacerat, haec cruentat oratio,

wounds, Cic. Phil. 2, 34, 86 (v. the figure in its connection).—

Transf.

To spot, stain, pollute:

vestem,

Lucr. 4, 1033.—

To dye red, to tinge with red (post-Aug.):

conchylio vestis cruentatur,

Sen. Contr 2, 15 fin.; so Stat. S. 1, 5, 38.

rŭbĕo, ēre, v. n. [v. ruber], to be red or ruddy (class.).

In gen.:

ulceribus quasi inustis omne rubere Corpus,

Lucr. 6, [p. 1602] 1166:

per herbas Matutina rubent radiati lumina solis,

id. 5, 462; cf. id. 6, 210:

oculi luce,

id. 6, 1146:

ocelli flendo,

Cat. 3, 18:

Tyrio murice lana,

Ov. A. A. 3, 170:

sanguine litus Undaque,

id. M. 11, 375; cf.

cruore,

id. ib. 4, 481:

sanguineis aviaria baccis,

Verg. G. 2, 430.—

In partic.

To be reddened by blood:

Sigea rubebant Litora,

Ov. M. 12, 71 (cf. supra, with sanguine and cruore).—

To grow red, to redden, color up, blush:

rubeo, mihi crede,

Cic. Att. 15, 4, 3; id. Verr. 2, 2, 76, § 187; Hor. Ep. 2. 1, 267; 2, 2, 156; Juv. 1, 166.— Hence, rŭbens, entis, P. a., being red, red, reddish.

In gen.:

in picturis ostroque rubenti,

Lucr. 2, 35:

rubenti minio,

Tib. 2, 1, 55:

murice,

Verg. E. 4, 43:

vere rubenti,

id. G. 2, 319:

rubente dextera,

Hor. C. 1, 2, 2:

in rubente folio,

Plin. 16, 7, 10, § 29 (Jahn, in foliorum venis):

rubentibus auriculis,

Suet. Aug. 69:

cur iracundissime sint flavi rubentesque,

Sen. Ira, 2, 19, 5.— Comp.:

superficies,

Plin. 37, 6, 23, § 89.—

In partic. (acc. to II. B.), red with shame, blushing:

virgo Inficitur teneras ore rubente genas,

Tib. 3, 4, 32:

ore rubenti,

Mart. 5, 2, 7; Claud. Laud. Stil. 2, 327.

rŭber, bra, brum (collat. form, nom. rŭbrus, Sol. 40, 23), adj. [Sanscr. rudhira, blood; Gr. eruthros, red; ef. rufus].

Red, ruddy (cf.:

rufus, russus): umor,

Lucr. 4, 1051:

sanguis,

Hor. C. 3, 13, 7:

cruore pannus,

id. Epod. 17, 51:

coccus,

id. S. 2, 6, 102:

jubar,

Lucr. 4, 404; cf.

flamma,

Ov. M. 11, 368:

Priapus,

painted red, id. F. 1, 415:

inguen,

id. ib. 1,400 (cf. rubicundus):

(sol) cum Praecipitem oceani rubro lavit aequore currum,

i. e. reddened by the setting sun, Verg. G. 3,359; cf.: juvenum recens Examen Eois timendum Partibus Oceanoque rubro, the Eastern (i. e. Indian) Ocean, Hor. C. 1, 35, 32 (cf. infra, II.):

rubriore pilo,

Plin. 10, 63, 83, § 180:

nitri quam ruberrimi,

Cels. 5, 18, 31 et saep. — Poet.:

leges majorum (because their titles were written in red letters),

Juv. 14, 192.—

As adj. prop.

Rubrum Mare, the Red Sea, the Arabian and Persian Gulfs, Mel. 1, 10; 3, 7, 8; 3, 8, 1; Plin. 6, 23, 28, § 107; Curt. 8, 9, 14; Cic. N. D. 1, 35, 97; Nep. Hann. 2, 1; Tib. 2, 4, 30; Prop. 1, 14, 12; 3, 13 (4, 12), 6; Sil. 12, 231; Liv. 42, 52, 12.— Poet.:

rubra aequora,

Prop. 1, 14, 12; Vulg. Heb. 11, 29 et saep.—

Saxa Rubra, a place between Rome and Veii, near the river Cremera, with stone-quarries, now Grotta rossa, Cic. Phil. 2, 31, 77; Liv. 2, 49 fin.; Tac. H. 3, 79;

called breves Rubrae,

Mart. 4, 64, 15.

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purpŭrĕus, a, um ( gen. sing. purpureaï, Lucr. 2, 52), adj. [id.].

Lit., purple-colored, purple; including very different shades of color, as red, reddish, violet, brownish, blackish, etc. (mostly poet.):

vestitus,

Cic. Div. 2, 16, 37:

pallium,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 13, § 31:

flos rosae,

Hor. C. 3, 15, 15:

amictus,

id. Ep. 1, 17, 27; Verg. A. 3, 405; Suet. Ner. 25:

pannus,

Hor. A. P. 15:

aurora,

rose-red, red, rosy, Ov. M. 3, 184:

rubor (oris),

id. Tr. 4, 3, 70; cf.

os,

Hor. C. 3, 3, 12:

ignis in ore Purpureus,

Stat. Achill. 1, 161:

anima,

i. e. blood, Verg. A. 9, 349:

purpureus lunae sanguine vultus erat,

Ov. Am. 1, 8, 12:

purpureus venit in ora pudor,

id. ib. 2, 5, 34:

genae,

id. ib. 1, 4, 22:

papavera,

Prop. 1, 20, 38:

sapa,

Ov. F. 4, 780:

lactuca,

Col. 11, 2, 26:

merum,

Ov. A. A. 2, 316:

capillus,

Verg. G. 1, 405:

mustum,

Prop. 3, 15 (4, 16), 17:

ficus,

Plin. 15, 18, 19, § 69:

mare illud, quod nunc Favonio nascente purpureum videtur,

i. e. blackish, dark, Cic. Ac. 2, 33, 105:

fluctus,

Prop. 2, 20 (3, 21), 5 (cf. the Homeric porphureon kuma):

pruna,

Col. 12, 10, 4:

vites,

id. 3, 2, 1.—

Transf.

Clothed in purple ( poet. for purpuratus):

tyranni,

Hor. C. 1, 35, 12:

rex,

Ov. M. 7, 102:

filius,

id. P. 2, 8, 50; Mart. 6, 11, 8 al.:

purpureus pennis,

i.e. with purple feathers upon his helmet, Verg. A. 10, 722:

torus,

covered with purple, Mart. 12, 17, 8.—

Brilliant, shining, bright, beautiful ( poet.):

olores,

Hor. C. 4, 1, 10:

lumen,

Verg. A. 1, 590:

lux,

Ov. F. 6, 252:

vultus Bacchi,

Stat. Th. 7, 148:

Amor,

Ov. Am. 2, 1, 38; cf.

alae,

id. R. Am. 701:

orbes (i. e. oculi),

beautiful eyes, Val. Fl. 3, 178:

ver, Col. poët. 10, 256: bracchia purpurea candidiora nive,

shining, Albin. 2, 62.