rus

rūs, rūris (used in the plur. only in nom. and acc.), n. [etym. dub.; cf. Zend. ravanh, broad, free; ravan, a plain; Germ. Raum, space], the country (opp. to the city), lands, fields; a country-seat, farm, estate, etc. (cf.:

fundus, praedia): pascua reddere rura,

Lucr. 5, 1248; cf.:

laudato ingentia rura, Exiguum colito,

Verg. G. 2, 412:

aspera dumis Rura,

id. A. 4, 527:

paterna rura bobus exercet suis,

Hor. Epod. 2, 3:

obsita pomis Rura,

Ov. M. 13, 720:

coli rura ab ergastulis pessimum est,

Plin. 18, 6, 7, § 36:

habet animi causā rus amoenum et suburbanum,

a country-seat, Cic. Rosc. Am. 46, 133; cf.:

rus urbanum,

Just. 31, 2, 3:

urbe relictā rura peragrantes saepe soli sumus,

Cic. Off. 3, 1, 1:

rure frui,

Ov. P. 1, 8, 40.— Acc.:

rus, in answer to the question whither? quom rus homines eunt,

to their country - seats, Plaut. Capt. 1, 1, 10:

rus ibo,

Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 107; 2, 1, 10:

rure redire,

from the farm, Plaut. Merc. 3, 3, 25; 4, 3, 6; 5, 18; 21; Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 63; 5, 4, 45 et saep.; so,

rure venire,

Plaut. Truc. 3, 2, 26:

rure huc advenit,

Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 115:

adveniens mater rure,

Plaut. Merc. 4, 5, 25;

for which, less freq.: ruri redire, venire, etc.,

id. Truc. 3, 2, 1; 25; id. Most. 5, 1, 28:

plus plaustrorum in aedibus Videas, quam ruri,

in the country, id. Aul. 3, 5, 32:

si illi sunt virgae ruri, at mihi tergum domi'st,

id. Bacch. 2, 3, 131; so,

ruri (cf. Zumpt, Gram. § 400),

id. Capt. 1, 1, 16; id. Cas. 1, 1, 38; 41; 2, 6, 68; 4, 2, 2; id. Cist. 2, 1, 14; id. Most. 1, 1, 4; 7; 18 et saep.; Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 20; 1, 2, 15; 3, 3, 47 al.; Cic. Off. 3, 31, 112; Brut. ap. Cic. Clu. 51, 141;

less freq.: rure esse, etc.,

Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 29; id. Cas. 1, 1, 17; 22; Titin. ap. Charis. p. 115 P.:

mori rure,

Liv. 38, 53; Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 1; 14, 10; Ov. A. A. 2, 229.—With an adj.:

rure paterno,

Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 60:

rure suo,

Ov. F. 6, 671; cf.:

ex meo propinquo rure hoc capio commodi,

Ter. Eun. 5, 5, 1.