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Ubi idem et maximus et honestissimus amor est, aliquando praestat morte jungi, quam vita distrahi → Where indeed the greatest and most honourable love exists, it is much better to be joined by death, than separated by life.
Latin > English
fuco fucare, fucavi, fucatus V :: color; paint; dye
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
fūco: āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. 1. fucus,
I to color, paint, dye.
I In gen.: Alba nec Assyrio fucatur lana veneno, Verg. G. 2, 465; so, vellera Milesia saturo hyali colore, id. ib. 4, 334: tabulas colore, Tac. A. 2, 14: pinnas vario veneno, Nemes. Cyneg. 309: frena spumis sanguineis (equus), Claud. Laud. Stil. 3, 350: humida creta colorque Stercore fucatus crocodili, i. e. paint made of crocodile's dung, Hor. Epod. 12, 11 (cf. Plin. 28, 8, 28, § 109).—
II In partic., with cosmetics, to paint, to rouge.
A Lit.: fucandi cura coloris, Ov. Tr. 2, 487: corpora vulsa atque fucata, Quint. 8 praef. § 19.—
B Trop.: unumquodque genus (dicendi) cum fucatur atque praelinitur, fit praestigiosum, is embellished too much, Gell. 7, 14, 11.—Hence, fūcātus, a, um, P. a. (acc. to II. B.), painted, colored, beautified, falsified, counterfeit (a favorite word of Cic.; syn.: simulatus; opp. sincerus, verus, naturalis): secerni blandus amicus a vero et internosci tam potest adhibita diligentia quam omnia fucata et simulata a sinceris atque veris, Cic. Lael. 25, 95: naturalis non fucatus nitor, id. Brut. 9, 36; cf.: fucati medicamenta candoris et ruboris omnia repellentur: elegantia modo et munditia remanebit, id. Or. 23, 79: signa probitatis non fucata forensi specie, sed domesticis inusta notis veritatis, id. Planc. 12, 29: iisdem ineptiis fucata sunt illa omnia, id. Mur. 12, 26: puer subdolae ac fucatae vernilitatis, Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 79.—Comp.: versus Homeri fucatior (opp. simplicior et sincerior), Gell. 13, 26, 3.—* Adv.: fūcāte, with paint or color: fucatius concinnata carmina, Aus. in prosa post Idyll. 3.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
fūcō,¹³ āvī, ātum, āre, (fucus), tr., teindre : Virg. G. 2, 465 ; Tac. Ann. 2, 14 || farder : Ov. Tr. 2, 1, 487 || [fig.] farder : Gell. 7, 14, 11 ; v. fucatus.
Latin > German (Georges)
fūco, āvī, ātum, āre (1. fucus), färben, I) im allg.: vellera hyali colore, Verg.: tabulas colore, übertünchen, Tac.: color stercore fucatus crocodili, Schminke aus Krokodilmist, Hor.: ministri fucandae purpurae, Gesellen einer Purpurfärberei, Purpurfärber, Amm.: ephippia fucata, purpurrot gefärbte, Apul. – II) insbes., zur Verschönerung färben, schön färben, schminken, aufschminken, colorem, Ov. (u. so fucatus candor et rubor, erkünstelte weiße u. rote Schminke, Cic.): corpora, Quint.: crinem, Hieron.: oculos circumducto nigrore, Cypr. de habit. virg. 14. – übtr., lepido quae sunt fucata sonore, Lucr.: isdem ineptiis fucata sunt illa omnia, Cic.: haec signa probitatis (sunt) non fucata (übertüncht) forensi specie, sed domestica inusta notis veritatis, Cic.: si veritas fucata mendacio est, Lact.: unum quodque genus (dicendi), cum caste pudiceque ornatur, fit illustrius, cum fucatur atque praelinitur (aufgeschminkt u. angestrichen wird), fit praestigiosum, Gell. 6 (7), 14, 11.
