flavus

flāvus, a, um, adj. [for flag-vus from FLAG, flagro, burning, light-colored], golden yellow, reddish yellow, flaxen-colored, xanthos (mostly poet. ):

color,

Col. 4, 3, 4:

mellis dulci flavoque liquore,

Lucr. 1, 938; 4, 13:

mella,

Mart. 1, 56, 10:

aurum,

Verg. A. 1, 592:

Ceres,

id. G. 1, 96; cf.

of the same: et te, flava comas, frugum mitissima mater,

Ov. M. 6, 118: mare marmore flavo, Enn. ap. Gell. 2, 26 (Ann. v. 377 ed. Vahl.):

arva,

Verg. G. 1, 316:

crines,

id. A. 12, 605:

coma,

Hor. C. 1, 5, 4; cf.:

Galanthis flava comas,

Ov. M. 9, 307:

flavus comarum Curio,

Sil. 9, 414:

Ganymedes,

Hor. C. 4, 4, 4:

Phyllis,

id. ib. 2, 4, 14:

Chloë,

id. ib. 3, 9, 19: Tiberis, reddish yellow (from the puzzolan earth on its ground), id. ib. 1, 2, 13; 1, 8, 8;

2, 3, 18: Tiberinus multa flavus harena,

Verg. A. 7, 31; Ov. M. 14, 447:

Lycormas,

id. ib. 2, 245:

pudor,

blushing, Sen. Hippol. 652:

capillus in flavum colorem,

Vulg. Lev. 13, 36; 30.— Subst.: an de moneta Caesaris decem flavos, gold pieces (cf. Engl. yellow-boys ), Mart. 12, 65, 6.— Comp.: flavior, Boëth. ap. Porphyr. Dial. 2, p. 31.