fucus1
fūcus
ī,
m
, fu=kos,
rock-lichen, orchil (a red dye for woollen goods); hence, a dye-stuff, red dye, red
color: Lana medicata fuco, H.: potantia vellera fucum, H.: Tyrius,
O.—A reddish juice, bee-glue, V.—Fig., pretence, disguise,
deceit, dissimulation: fucum facere mulieri, T.:
venustatis non fuco inlitus color: puerilis: mercem sine
fucis gestat, H.: sine fuco ac fallaciis.