Fuscus

1.

fuscus, a, um, adj. [for fur-scus; cf. furvus, v. Curt. Gr. Etym. p. 304], dark, swarthy, dusky, tawny (class.; cf.:

pullus, niger): purpura plebeia ac paene fusca,

Cic. Sest. 8, 19:

cornix, id. poët. Div. 1, 8, 14: illi sint comites fusci, quos India torret,

Tib. 2, 3, 55; cf.

Andromede,

Ov. H. 15, 36:

Hydaspes,

Hor. S. 2, 8, 14;

also transf.: Syene,

Mart. 9, 36, 7:

nubila,

Ov. M. 5, 286; cf.:

alae noctis,

Verg. A. 8, 369;

and transf.: amictus (somni),

Tib. 3, 4, 55:

Falerna,

Mart. 2, 40, 6.— Comp.:

altera (fraxinus), brevis, durior fusciorque,

Plin. 16, 13, 24, § 63:

laterna,

i. e. dark, Mart. 14, 62.—As denoting misfortune:

fuscis avibus Larissam accessi,

App. M. 2, 124.—

B.

Transf., of the voice, indistinct, husky, hoarse (opp. candidus):

et vocis genera permulta: candidum (al. canorum) fuscum, leve asperum, grave acutum, etc.,

Cic. N. D. 2, 58, 146 Mos. and Orell. N. cr.; cf.:

est (vox) et candida et fusca et plena et exilis, etc.,

Quint. 11, 3, 15; Plin. 28, 6, 16, § 58:

hic etiam fusca illa vox, qualem, etc.,

Quint. 11, 3, 171 (for which Cic. Brut. 38, 141, subrauca).

2.

Fuscus, i, m., a Roman surname; e. g.,

1.

Aristius Fuscus, an intimate friend of Horace; v. Aristius.—

2.

Fuscus, a soldier, courtier, and sensualist of the time of Domitian, Tac. H. 2, 86; Mart. 6, 76; Juv. 4, 112.—

II.

Deriv.: Fuscī-nus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to a Fuscus:

explicationes,

Sen. Suas. 4 fin.