atratus

1.

ātrātus, a, um, P. a., as if from atro, āre [ater], clothed in black for mourning, dressed in mourning: cedo, quis umquam cenārit atratus? * Cic. Vatin. 12 fin.:

plebes,

Tac. A. 3, 2:

senex,

Suet. Galb. 18.—

Also of suppliants: an atratus prodiret in publicum proque rostris precaretur,

Suet. Ner. 47.— Poet. of the horses in the chariot of the sun darkened in an eclipse:

Solis et atratis luxerit orbis equis,

Prop. 4, 4, 34 (cf. id. 3, 7, 32: Et citius nigros sol agitabit equos).

2.

Ātrātus, i, m., a small river in the vicinity of Rome, Cic. Div. 1, 43, 98 B. and K.