rubor

rŭbor, ōris, m. [rubeo], redness of all shades, cf. Gell. 2, 26, 5 (class.).

I.

In gen.:

candore mixtus rubor,

Cic. N. D. 1, 27, 75:

medicamenta ruboris,

id. Or. 23, 79; cf. Ov. M. 3, 491; id. Am. 3, 3, 5 sq.:

cui plurimus ignem Subjecit rubor,

Verg. A. 12, 66 sq.:

quidam ruboris acerrimi,

Sen. Q. N. 1, 14, 2; Plin. 11, 38, 91, § 224:

in ore impudentia multo rubore effusa,

Plin. Pan. 48, 4; Tac. Agr. 45:

cocci,

Plin. 10, 22, 29, § 56.— Plur.:

Tyrios incocta rubores,

i. e. purple, Verg. G. 3, 307:

molles rubores,

Sen. Herc. Oet. 664.—

II.

In partic., a blush.

A.

Lit.:

pudorem rubor consequitur,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 8, 19:

Masinissae haec audienti non rubor solum suffusus, sed lacrimae etiam obortae,

Liv. 30, 15:

verecundus,

Ov. M. 1, 484; cf. id. ib. 2, 450; 4, 329;

6, 47.—In a comic equivoque: in ruborem te totum dabo,

I will make you red all over, Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 9 (cf. id. Truc. 2, 2, 37 sq.).—

B.

Meton. (causa pro effectu), shamefacedness, bashfulness, modesty (syn. pudor;

not freq. till after the Aug. per.): (orator) praestet ingenuitatem et ruborem suum verborum turpitudine et rerum obscenitate vitandā,

Cic. de Or. 2, 59, 242; cf.:

ruborem incutere,

Liv. 45, 37 fin.:

ruborem afferre,

Tac. A. 13, 15:

vox, quae vel rabulae cuivis ruborem inicere potest,

to put to the blush, Auct. Her. 4, 10, 14:

vultu modesto ruborisque pleno (shortly after: verecundia oris),

Suet. Dom. 18:

proprius,

Tac. H. 4, 7:

antiquitatis,

Plin. 36, 1, 2, § 4.—

2.

Esp., after the Aug. per., by a further meton. (like pudor), the cause of shame; shame, disgrace:

censoris judicium nihil fere damnato nisi ruborem affert,

Cic. Rep. 4, 6, 6:

nec tunicam tibi sit posuisse, rubori,

Ov. Am. 3, 14, 21; cf.:

duas res ei rubori fuisse, unam, quod, etc.,

Liv. 45, 13; 4, 35, 11; so,

rubori est (alicui),

Tac. A. 14, 55 fin.; 11, 17;

for which also: nec rubor est emisse palam,

Ov. A. A. 3, 167; Tac. G. 13:

minorem quippe ruborem fore in juris iniquitate, quam si, etc.,

Liv. 4, 35 fin.; cf.:

nil tua facta ruboris habent,

Ov. H. 20, 204:

rubor ac dedecus penes omnes,

Tac. H. 1, 30:

saepe minus est constantiae in rubore quam in culpā,

Curt. 9, 7, 25.