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|lshtext=<b>rustĭcus</b>: a, um, adj. rus,<br /><b>I</b> of or belonging to the [[country]], [[rural]], [[rustic]], [[country]]- ([[very]] freq. and [[class]].; syn. [[agrestis]]; opp. [[urbanus]]).<br /><b>I</b> 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.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Substt.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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 <[[number]] opt="n">[[sing]].</[[number]]>, Ov. M. 2, 699; Hor. Epod. 2, 68; id. Ep. 1, 7, 83; 2, 2, 39; Vulg. Sap. 17, 16.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; rustĭca, ae, f.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>a</b> A [[country]] [[girl]], Ov. M. 5, 583.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>b</b> (Sc. [[gallina]].) A [[heath]]-[[cock]], Mart. 13, 76 (cf. [[supra]], A., and [[rusticulus]], II. B.).—<br /><b>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]].