RUB 
RUB 
RUD 
round. Manil. and St at. So, Ovid. 
Rotati poll, revolving. -- IT Intrans. 
to roll round or over. Virg. Saxa ro- 
tantia irnpulerat torrens. — Of the pea¬ 
cock, to make a wheel (with the tail). 
Colum. 
R8T0LX (dimin. from rota), as, f. a little 
% wheel, rpoxivKOS- Plant. 
RSTuLuS, i, in. same as Rotula. Calp. 7, 
2 51. Ed. Beck. 
R8T0NDX, re, f. See Rotundus, a, um. 
R8T0NDaTI 8 (rotnndo), onis, f. around- 
2 ini', making round; also, the round, cir¬ 
cle. Vitruv. Circumagitur linea rotun- 
dationis, h. e. the circumference. 
ROTO.VDis (rotundus), adverb, roundly, 
2 orpoyyvX'os. Colum. (Ed. Schneid.) Ut 
in orbein quam rotundissime formetur. 
-IT Figur. in well-turned or smooth 
diction, in good connection, elegantly. Cic. 
ROTONDIF8LIOS (rotundus & folium), 
3 a, um, adj . having round leaves. Apul. 
ROTuNDITaS (rotundus), atis, f. round- 
2 ness, circularity. Plin. — Figur. round¬ 
ness, smoothness, and suitable construc¬ 
tion. Macrob. verborum. 
R0T0ND8 (Id.), as, avi, atum, a. 1. to 
1 round, make round, orpoyyvXooi. Cic. 
Cuinque similem universitatis efficere 
vellet, ad volubilitatem rotundavit. Vi- 
truv. Rotundare tignum ad circinum. 
Plin. Herbremoxin caulem rotundantur, 
round themselves into a stem, become round¬ 
ed, Sec. Mela. Flamma cogit se ac ro- 
tundat. — Hence, Rotundatus, a, um, 
rounded, round. Vitruv. -IT Figur. 
to heap or bring together. Horat. mille 
talenta. — Also, to round, compose 
smoothly and skilfully; hence, Rotunda¬ 
tus, smoothly composed, smooth, flowing, 
fee. Sidon. hendecasyllabi. 
RoTONDJLX (dimin. from rotunda), re, f. 
3 a little round mass, as a little ball, little 
roll, pellet, &c. Apul. 
RdTONDuS (rota), a, um, adj. round, cir¬ 
cular, globular, spherical, crrpoyyvXos, 
rptryficig. Cic. Stellre globos® et ro- 
tuudffi. Id. Mundum Deus ita torna- 
vit, ut nihil effici possit rotundius. Id. 
Stellarum rotundi ambitus. Ovid, ora, 
a round face. Cic. Medius mundi locus, 
qui est idem inflmus in rotundo. Cels. 
Capita feminum rotundiora, quam hu- 
mevorum sunt, cum ilia ex ceteris ro- 
tundissiina sint. — Hence, Rotundum, 
a round thing, an orb or sphere. Cic. 
Also, Rotunda, a round (h. e. cylindri¬ 
cal) mass. Scribon. Larg. -IT Figur. 
of the wise man. Ilorat. Teres atque 
rotundus, round and smooth like a ball, 
with no asperities or eminences, pre¬ 
senting a smooth and slippery surface 
to every thing that would cleave to 
him. (Comp. Auson. Idyll. 16, 4.)- 
IT Also, figur. of the dress. Quintil. 
toga, h. e. sitting close to the body, or 
hanging down alike all around. - 
IT And'figur. of diction, especially peri¬ 
odic diction, well-knit, round, smooth, 
flowing, equable, even, without asperities. 
Cic. Erat verborum et delectus elegans, 
et apta et quasi rotunda constructio. 
Id. Thucydides videbatur Socrati prre- 
fractior, nec satis, ut ita dicam, rotun¬ 
dus. Qell. Verbis brevibus et rotun- 
disvinctum. Horat. Ore rotundo loqui, 
h. c. in rounded periods, smoothly, with 
beautiful expression. — Otherwise, Quin- 
til- Q,uum ilia rotunda, et unaique cir- 
cumcisa insistere invicem nequeant (as 
a building cannot be constructed of 
round stones). 
ROBeDS (rubeo), inis, f. redness.3Fi.rmic. 
R0BEFXCI5 (rubeo & facio), is, eei, ac- 
3 turn, a. 3. (part. pass. Rubefactus) to 
make red, tinge with red, redden. Ovid. 
Arundo exiguo rubefecit sanguine setas. 
n /({• Cornua rubefacta cruore. 
ROBKEaUTOS, a, um. See Rubefacio. 
ROBeLLIaNOS (rubellus), a, um, adj. 
~ faddish. Colum. vitis, a kind of vine 
with reddish wood. 
ROBeLLIS (Id.), onis, m. a reddish fish, 
Pn-r' l P s a species of mullet. Plin. 
KuHeLLuLOS (dimin. from rubellus) 
i,^'PT n i a dj. somewhat reddish. Mart. Cap. 
RuBeLLOS (dimin. from ruber), a, um, 
-adj. somewhat red, reddish, vn£pv$rpo;. 
yinum. Plin. vinea. 
o v a j 3 ’ tis > PoHicip. from rubeo.- 
3 il Adj. red, reddish. Plin. Rubentior. 
ROBES (ruber), es, ui, n. 2. to be red, 
ipv-rpaivnpai ; of blood, color, fire, in¬ 
flammations, &c. Virg. Puniceis in- 
vecta rotis aurora rubebit. Juvenal. 
Rubet ille flagellis. Catull. Flendo 
rubent ocelli, are red with weeping. 
Hence, Rubens, red, ruddy,glowing red. 
Ovid. vina. Virg. Suave rubens hya- 
cinthus. Horat. dextra, red right, hand, 
as armed with lightning. Ovid. Fer- 
rum rubens igne, red-hot. -IT Also, 
to be red, blush. Cic. Rubeo, mibi cre- 
de. Tibull. Ore rubente. - IT See, 
also, Rubens, and Rubescn. 
ROBER (unc.), ubra, ubrum, red, ruddy, 
epvSpdg. Plin. sal. Horat. Panni ru- 
bri cruore. Id. sanguis. Ovid, flam¬ 
ma. Ilorat. Canicula, h. e. burning, 
fiery. Propert. Aurora. Martial. (Ho¬ 
mo) ruber crine. Cels. Color ex rubro 
subniger, blackish mixed with red, red- 
blackish. Plin. Colorein illico mutant 
rubriore pilo. Cels. Nitrum quam ru- 
berrimum.-IT Mare Rubrum, same 
as Erythrccum, comprehends the sea of 
Arabia, and even the whole Indian ocean; 
the sinus Arabicus (the modern Red sea ) 
and the sinus Pcrsicus were branches 
of this. Cic. Bellua;, qu® in rubro 
mari Indiave gignantur. Sil. Lapis 
rubris advectus ab undis. Plin. Litus 
rubrum, h. e. litus maris rubri. But in 
Virg. Sol oceani rubro lavit tequore 
currum ; tequor rubrum oceani, is the 
ocean reddened by the beams of the sun. 
-IT Saxa rubra, a place in Etruria, 
Cic.; called also Rubric breves by Mar¬ 
tial. -IT Rubra; leges, with red titles. 
Juvenal. (Comp, rubrica.) 
ROBeSCS (rubeo), cis, bui, n. 3. to become 
2 red, redden, ipvSpaivu>. Virg. Arva 
csde rubescunt. Id. Rubescebat radiis 
mare. Id. Jam rubescebat Aurora, for 
oriebatur. Ovid. Cancri signa ru¬ 
bescunt, h. e. by the entering sun. Id. 
Saxa rubuerunt sanguine. Plin. Rosa 
rubescens. —-— IT Also, to redden, color 
up, blush. Ovid. Et rubuere gen®. 
ROBeTX (rubus), *, f. a kind of venomous 
frog, living among bramble-bushes, bram¬ 
ble-frog, (jipvi'oq. Plin. and Juvenal. Al¬ 
so, Rana rubeta. Propert. and Plin. 
ROBeTUM (Id.), i, n. a place where bram- 
3 ble-bushes grow, bramble-thicket. Ovid. 
ROBEOS (ruber), a, um, adj. red, ruddy. 
2 Varr. color. 
REBECS (rubus), a, um, adj. of bramble- 
3 bushes. Virg. virga. 
ROBI, orum, m, a town of Apulia, now 
Ruvo. Horat. 
ROBIX (ruber), ae, f. madder. Vitruv. 
ROBICS, or ROBICoN, onis, m. a small 
river of Italy, near Ravenna, which was 
the boundary between Italy and Cisalpine 
Gaul. Plin. 
ROBTCuNDuLCS (dimin. from rubicun- 
3 dus), a, um, adj. someichat red, pretty 
red. Juvenal. 
RCBICuNDCS (rubeo), a, um, adj. red, 
2 ruddy, ipvOpaTof. Oviil. Priapus, h. e. 
painted red. Id. matrona, reddened or 
browned by the sun, sunburnt. Terent. 
homo, red in the face. Varr. Sabula 
rubicundior. Virg. Ceres, h. e. reddish, 
yellowish. 
ROBIDOS (Id.), a, um, adj. red, ruddy, 
2 also, perhaps, reddish, swarthy red. Sue- 
ton. Facies rubida ex vinolentia. Gcll. 
Rubidus est rufus atrior, etnigrore mul- 
to inustus. Pluut. panis, h. e. broicn. 
RUBIGO, 
RUB1GALIS, 
RUBIGINO, 
RIJBIGINOSUS, 
RUB1GUS. 
See Robigo, Robiga- 
lis, &c. 
R0B5R (rubeo), oris, m. redness,red color, 
cpvdporqi. Cic. Medicamenta fucati 
candoris, et ruboris. Plin. Cocci ru¬ 
bor. Val. Flacc. Aureus rubor. Virg. 
Vellera Tyrios incocta rubores, li. c. 
colorem purpura. Plin. Rubnri illini- 
tur spuma, h. c. snffuso sanguini sub 
cute. Plaut. In ruborem te totum da- 
bo, sc. with blows. — Also, of the coun¬ 
tenance, glow, blush, flush. Ovid. Ro- 
seo suffusa rubore. Plin. Alius est ira 
rubor, et alius verecundia 1 .— Hence, 
blush, blushing, to indicate shame or 
modesty. Lio. Masiniss® h®c audi- 
enti non rubor solum suffusus, sed la- 
crym® etiam obort®. Auct. ad Ilcrenn. 
783 
Rubores alicui elicere, to put to the blush 
Tacit. Ruborem i life ire, induce a blush, 
Sucton. Vultu modesto ruborisque pie- 
no. Ovid. Nec fuit iis rubori, stivam 
aratri repetere, nor did they blush, wort 
they ashamed. Tacit. Rubori mihi est, 
quod nondum omnes fortuna antecellis, 
I blush, that, &c. Iam ashamed, that, fee. 
— Hence, shamefacedness, modesty. Cic. 
Prastet orator ruborem suum, rerum 
obscenitate vitanda. — Also, a thing to 
blush at, a cause for shame, a shame. 
Ovid. Nil tua facta ruboris habent. 
Tacit. Nec rubor est inter comites aspi- 
ci. Id. Rubor ac dedecus. 
RUBRI aNOS, a, um, adj. of or pertaining 
to a Rubrius. Pandect, senatus consul- 
turn, h. e. under the consulship of Ru¬ 
brius. 
RBBRICX (ruber), ®, f. any red earth. 
2 Vitruv. — Also, joined with or nearly 
preceded by terra. Colum. -IT Also, 
any red color dug from the earth, as, rud¬ 
dle, red chalk, red clay, red ochre. Plaut., 
Auct. ad Her., and Horat. -IT As the 
titles of laws were made or painted red, 
the title of a law or ordinance, rubric. 
Pandect. — Also, the law itself. Quintil. 
Se ad album ac rubricam transltilerunt, 
to the study of the laws. Pcrs. Si quid 
Masuri rubrica vetavit. 
RUBRICATES (rubrica), a, um, adj. mxide 
3 or painted red. Auct. Priap. 
RSBRICoSOS (Id.), a, um, adj. full oj 
2 red earth, consisting of red earth, red. 
Cato. ager. Colum. solum. 
R5BR0S, a, um,/or Ruber. Sidon. 
ROBUM, i, n. See Rubus, at the end. 
ROBOS (allied with ruber, rubeo), i, m. 
the bramble or blackberry-bush, /3aros 
Virg. and Plin. Also, Plin. Genus 
(rubi) Id®um, the sacred raspberry (R u¬ 
bus sanctus, of Schreb. and Willd.) 
— Also, fem. Prudent. - IT Also, 
the blackberry. Calpurn. Rubos colli- 
gere. Propert. Puniceis plena canistra 
rubis. So, also, Liv. Rubis. (But in the 
last two, the nomin. may be rubum, as 
prunum, pirum, &c.) 
RuCTaMEN (ructo), Inis, n. a belching, 
3 rifting. Prudent, carnis. 
RuCTaTRiX (Id.), icis, f. she that belches, 
3 belching. Martial, menta.,causingbelching. 
R0CT8 (frequentat. from rugo, not used, 
which is from the Greek tpvyto, or epev- 
yio ; erugo is used by Fes’t. and eructus 
by -Gelt.), as, avi, atum, n. and a. 1. to 
belch, rift. Plaut. Pergin’ ructare in 
os fnihi? Cic. Magister equitum, cui 
ructare turpe esset. So, deponently, 
Cic. (teste Festo ). — With an accus. of 
the food, xvhich rises in the stomach. 
Thus, Ructo (ructor) acidum, crudum, 
my food rises with a sour or crude taste. 
Plin. Stomachus acida ructans, rising 
sour. Cels. Q,ui crudum ructat. Mar¬ 
tial. Ructare aprum. Varr. Aves etiam 
nunc ructor, I taste the birds even now, 
they rise in my stomach -Hence, to belch 
out. Sil. Permixtosque mero ructatos 
ore cruores-IT Also, figur. to belch 
out, emit. Horat. sublimes versus. Pal- 
lad. Si terra fumum ructaverit. Sidon. 
Ructans semideum propinquitates, h. c. 
jactans, in ore habens. 
R0CT5R, aris. See Ructo. 
RliOTOB, same as Ructo. Augustin. 3 
RuCTEoSOS (ructus), a, um, adj. full of 
3 belches. Ctel. ap. Quintil. 
RuCTOS (rugo, not used; see Ructo), us, 
m. a belch, belching, eructation, breaking 
wind upwards, rising of the stomach, ipv- 
yfj. Cic. Stoici crepitus aiunt ®que 
liberos, ac ructus esse oportere. Plin. 
Peucedani succus ructus gignit, causes, 
brings on. So, Id. Anethum ructus 
rnovet, and. Id. Smyrnion ciet ructus, 
and, Id. Silphion facit ructus. — Figur. 
Vitruv. fontium, the bubbling up. 
RODEaTOS, a, um, same as Rudectus. 
Cato. — Doubtful. 
RuDeCTES (rudus), a, um, adj .full ofrub- 
3 bisk ; hence, of soil, dry or meagre. Cato 
RODENS (unc.), tis, m. a stout rope. Vi¬ 
truv. (of the catapulta and balista). — 
More often a rope of a ship, especially 
one attached to the yard or sail, naXoty, 
updrovos, etrirovos, napxV'xioi. Cic. Ex- 
plicatio rudentis. Virg. Stridor ruden. 
turn, the creaking of the cordaa-e. Catull. 
Sustollanl vela rudentes. Virg. Laxare 
