heathcocks

rustĭcus, a, um, adj. [rus], of or belonging to the country, rural, rustic, country- (very freq. and class.; syn. agrestis; opp. urbanus).

Lit.:

vita,

Varr. R. R. 3, 1, 1; cf.:

vita haec rustica, quam tu agrestem vocas,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 27, 75:

duae vitae hominum, rustica et urbana,

id. ib. 17, 48:

Romani (opp. urbani),

Varr. R. R. 2, praef. § 1; cf. plebes (opp. urbana), Col. praef. § 17;

praedia,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 15, 42:

hortus,

Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 15:

instrumentum,

Phaedr. 4, 4, 24:

opus,

Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 90:

res,

Cic. de Or. 1, 16, 69; 1, 58, 249;

Col. praef. § 19 sq.: homo (with agricola),

Cic. Rosc. Am. 49, 143; id. N. D. 3, 5, 11:

colona,

Ov. F. 2, 645; cf.

Phidyle,

Hor. C. 3, 23, 2:

mus (opp. urbanus),

id. S. 2, 6, 80; 115:

gallinae,

heathcocks, Varr. R. R. 3, 9, 16; Col. 8, 2, 1 sq. (cf. infra, B. 2. b.):

numina,

Ov. M. 1, 192:

fistula,

id. ib. 8, 191:

sedulitas,

id. F. 6, 534:

regna,

id. H. 4, 132:

opprobria versibus alternis,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 146:

carcer,

Juv. 14, 24.—

ru-stĭcus, i, m., a countryman, rustic, peasant; in plur.: rustici, country people, rustics:

urbani fiunt rustici, etc.,

Plaut. Mere. 4, 3, 15 sq.:

omnes urbani, rustici,

Cic. Fin. 2, 23, 77; cf. id. Or. 24, 81;

semper occant prius quam sarriunt rustici,

Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 5; id. Most. 5, 1, 28; Col. 2, 4, 8; 9, 10 et saep.—In sing., Ov. M. 2, 699; Hor. Epod. 2, 68; id. Ep. 1, 7, 83; 2, 2, 39; Vulg. Sap. 17, 16.—

rustĭca, ae, f.

A country girl, Ov. M. 5, 583.—

(Sc. gallina.) A heath-cock, Mart. 13, 76 (cf. supra, A., and rusticulus, II. B.).—

Transf., countrylike, rustic, simple, in a good or (more freq.) in a bad sense, i. e. plain, simple, provincial, rough, coarse, gross, awkward, clownish, etc. (in this sense not freq. till after the Aug. period;

previously, as in Cic., agrestis was more used): rustica vox et agrestis quosdam delectat, etc.... neque solum rusticam asperitatem, sed etiam peregrinam insolentiam fugere discamus,

Cic. de Or. 3, 11, 42; 12, 44:

pro bardā et pro rusticā haberi,

Plaut. Pers. 2, 1, 2:

rusticus inlitteratusque litigator,

Quint. 2, 21, 16:

manus (with indoctae),

id. 1, 11, 16; cf.

with indoctus,

id. 12, 10, 53;

with barbarus,

id. 2, 20, 6;

(opp. disertus) 7, 1, 43: id vitium sermonis non barbarum esse, sed rusticum,

Gell. 13, 6, 2:

Germana illuvies, rusticus, hircus, hara suis, etc.,

a lout, clown, Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 39 Lorenz ad loc.:

rusticus es, Corydon,

Verg. E. 2, 56:

quid coeptum, rustice, rumpis iter?

Ov. Am. 3, 6, 88:

addidit obscenis convicia rustica dictis,

id. M. 14, 522: sive procax aliqua est;

capior, quia rustica non est,

very prudish, id. Am. 2, 4, 13; cf. id. A. A. 1, 607:

nec tamen est, quamvis agros amet illa feraces, Rustica,

id. Am. 3, 10, 18.—In a good sense:

mores,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 27, 75:

veritas,

Mart. 10, 72, 11. — Comp.:

simus hoc titulo rusticiore contenti,

Sen. Ep. 88, 33.—Hence, adv.: ru-stĭcē (acc. to II.), in a countrified manner, clownishly, boorishly, awkwardly:

loquinon aspere, non vaste, non rustice,

Cic. de Or. 3, 12, 45:

urgere,

id. Off. 3, 9, 39:

facere aliquid,

id. Att. 12, 36, 2:

cum eo vitio loquentes rustice loqui dictitabant,

Gell. 13, 6, 2.— Comp.:

rusticius toga defluit,

Hor. S. 1, 3, 31.— Sup. does not occur.