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|lshtext=<b>fūcōsus</b>: a, um, adj. id.,<br /><b>I</b> [[painted]], colored, beautified, [[counterfeit]], [[spurious]] (Ciceron.): visae [[merces]], fallaces [[quidem]] et fucosae, chartis et linteis et vitro delatae, Cic. Rab. Post. 14, 40: [[vicinitas]] non assueta mendaciis, non fucosa, non [[fallax]], non erudita artificio simulationis, id. Planc. 7, 22: ambitiosae fucosaeque amicitiae, id. Att. 1, 18, 2.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; † fūcus, i, m., = [[φῦκος]]>, [[rock]]-[[lichen]], orchil, used as a [[red]] [[dye]] for [[woollen]] [[goods]], Lichen roccella, Linn., Plin. 26, 10, 66, § 103 sq.: ut [[lana]] [[tincta]] [[fuco]] [[citra]] purpuras placet, Quint. 12, 10, 75.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf., [[red]] or [[purple]] [[color]].<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> In gen.: infici vestes scimus admirabili [[fuco]], Plin. 22, 2, 3, § 3; Hor. C. 3, 5, 28; id. Ep. 1, 10, 27 Orell. ad loc.; Ov. M. 6, 222 al.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> In partic.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Rouge, [[paint]] for the [[complexion]]: vetulae, quae vitia corporis [[fuco]] occulunt, Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 118: si caeruleo quaedam sua tempora [[fuco]] tinxerit, Prop. 2, 18, 31 (3, 11, 10 M.): mangones colorem [[fuco]], et rerum [[robur]] inani [[sagina]] mentiantur, Quint. 2, 15, 25.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Dross, [[alloy]], [[adulteration]]: adulteratur (sal) [[rubrica]] aut [[testa]] trita, qui [[fucus]] [[aqua]] deprehenditur diluente, Plin. 31, 7, 42, § 91.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>3</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; For [[propolis]] (q. v.), the [[reddish]] [[juice]] [[with]] [[which]] bees [[stop]] up the entrances to [[their]] [[hive]], [[bee]]-[[glue]], Verg. G. 4, 39. —<br /><b>III</b> Trop., [[pretence]], [[disguise]], [[deceit]], [[dissimulation]]: his [[tribus]] figuris insidere [[quidam]] venustatis non [[fuco]] [[illitus]], sed [[sanguine]] [[diffusus]] debet [[color]], Cic. de Or. 3, 52, 199; cf.: sententiae tam verae, tam novae, tam [[sine]] pigmentis fucoque puerili, id. ib. 2, 45, 188: [[fuco]] ementitus [[color]], Quint. 8, 3, 6: in oratoris aut in poëtae cincinnis ac [[fuco]], Cic. de Or. 3, 25, 100: mercem [[sine]] fucis gestat, Hor. S. 1, 2, 83: nec sycophantiis nec fucis ullum mantellum [[obviam]] est, Plaut. Capt. 3, 3, 6: [[sine]] [[fuco]] ac fallaciis, Cic. Att. 1, 1, 1: deum [[sese]] in hominem convertisse ... fucum [[factum]] mulieri, i. e. to [[deceive]], [[impose]] [[upon]] (vulg.), Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 41: si eum, qui [[tibi]] promiserit, audieris fucum, ut dicitur, facere velle aut senseris, Q. Cic. Petit. Cons. 9, 35.