rusticor

rustĭcor, ātus, 1, v. dep. n. [rusticus].

I.

Lit., to live in the country, to rusticate.

A.

In gen. (class.):

socerum suum Laelium semper fere cum Scipione solitum rusticari,

Cic. de Or. 2, 6, 22: sin rusticatur, id [p. 1608] Att. 12, 1, 1:

dies ad rusticandum dati,

id. Leg. 1, 3, 9.—Of abstract subjects:

(haec studia) pernoctant nobiscum, peregrinantur, rusticantur,

Cic. Arch. 7, 16.—

B.

In partic., econom. t. t., to practise husbandry, to till the ground, be a farmer, Col. 11, 1, 5 sq.; 12, 3, 8.—

II.

Transf., to talk in a rustic manner, talk like a peasant:

Varrones, Terentius,

Sid. Ep. 4, 3.