RUO 
RUR 
RUS 
RONCaTOR (Id.), oris, m. a wecdcr, /3o- 
2 ravi(TTfjs• Colurn. 
RONCINX ( pvKavri ), re, f. a plane. Varr. 
2 -IT Dea Runcina (from runcare, to 
mow'], a goddess of com. Augustin. 
RuNCiNB (runcina), as, a.^1. to plane, 
3 smooth with a plane, pVKavigw. Amob. 
RuNCS (runco, as), onis, rn. a wecding- 
3 hook, mattock, grub-axe. Pallad. 
R0NC8 (unc.), as, avi, atum, a. 1. to weed, 
3 weed out, stub up, (joravigw. Cato, spinas. 
Varr. segetes. Colum. Qui runcaturi 
sunt. — Hence, to pluck, strip of its hair. 
Pars. Penem arcanaque liimbi runcans. 
— Also, to mow. August, frumenta. 
Rt>5 (dpovw), iS, rui, ruitum and rutum, 
n. and a. 3. Intrans. to fall down im¬ 
petuously, rush headlong, rush down, dash 
down, tumble down, fall to the ground, 
rrirrcj, Karaipspofxai. Liv. Crebris mo- 
tibus terra riiunt tecta, are thrown down. 
Ovid. Urges ruiturum, Sisyphe, saxum. 
Virg. Ruit alto a culmine Troja. Id. 
Ruunt de montibus amnes, rush down, 
dash down, precipitate themselves. Id. 
Ruit retliere toto turbidus imber aqua, 
pours down. Id. Ruebant victores victi- 
que, fell, were slain. — Figur. Cic. 
Ruere ilia non possunt, fall, be over¬ 
thrown, be ruined. Tacit. Ruentia (op¬ 
posed to prospera), a state of things has¬ 
tening to ruin, declining circumstances. 
Virg. Ruitarduus lEther, falls down, is 
precipitated, proverbially, of a violent 
rain. 'Tercnt. Quid si ccelum ruat? 
what if the sky should fall I -IT Also, 
to rush out or forth, issue rapidly. Virg. 
Ostia centum, unde ruunt totidem vo¬ 
ces. Id. .JEn. 2, 250. Ruit Oceano nox. 
comes rapidly up, rushes up from the 
ocean, h. e. sets in. Id. JEn. 6, 539. 
Nox ruit. Id. Revoluta ruebat dies. 
Val. Place. Vesper ruit.-H Also, to 
rush in, press in, run in, make an irrup¬ 
tion into, dash in. Flor. Rex infesto in 
Cappadociam agmine ruebat. Tacit.. 
Legio sustinuit ruentes, mox impulit. 
-ir Also, to rush or precipitate one’s 
self any whither, run, speed, haste. Liv. 
Legiones infesto agmine ruere ad ur- 
hem. Virg. /Eneas, Turnusque ruunt 
oer proelia. Liv. Eques pedesque cer- 
iatim portis ruere, rush out at the gates. 
Tacit. Ruere cuncti in castra. Flor. 
Ut destinata morte in prcelium ruerent. 
Cic. Ilium ruere nunciant, h. c. runs, 
hastens. Id. ad interitum voluntarium. 
Tacit, in servitium. Id. in exitium. 
Virr. Hue omnis turba ruebat, rushed, 
-ran7 Liv. Crudelitatis odio in crudeli- 
tatem ruitis , you rush into cruelty, plunge 
into cruel measures. So, pass, impers. 
Liv. Ferme fugiendo in media fata rui- 
tur, we rush, men rush. — Hence, figur, 
to rush headlong or inconsiderately for¬ 
ward, dash on, speak or act rashly or at 
random, take no counsel, be overhasty, 
be carried away, slip, err, go astray. 
Propert. Nescit vestra mens ira referre 
pedem. Cic. Ego bonos viros sequar, 
etiamsi ruent. hi. In agendo ruere, ac 
stepe peccave. Id. Emptorem pati rue¬ 
re, to act amiss, go astray, make a bad 
bargain. Liv. Accusator ^ pati. reum 
ruere, to dash on, and so injure his own 
' cause. Tercnt. Vide, ne quid impru- 
dens mas, make a slip. Cic. Ruebant 
in tenebris, rushed blindly on. Id. Ruit 
in dicendo, goes wrong, runs astray. 
Also, figur. to hasten to a close, draw to 
an end, pass off, decline, set. Virg. Ruit 
imbriferum ver. Apul. Sol ruit cobIo; 
or, merely, Virg. and Val. Flacc. Sol 
ruit sets. -II. Trans, to throw down 
with violence, force, or rapidity, dash 
down, tumble down , hurl to the ground, 
pull down or over, overthrow, prostrate, 
■precipitate, send tc the bottom, Kii-oaipeui. 
Plaut. Procellse ruunt antennas. Lu¬ 
cre! Venti vis ingentes ruit naves. 
Val. Flacc. Amnis fluctu arbusta mens. 
Vircr. cumulos arena!, break down, and 
so level. Lucret. aliquem ad terram. 
Apul. (de aquila) In predam superne 
sese ruere, precipitate herself, h. e. 
pounce, dart down. — Hence, Rutus, a, 
um, torn down or that may be tom down. 
Cic. and Pandect. Rut a casa ; or, Crass. 
ap. Cic. and Pandect. Ruta et casa, all 
movables, things not fixtures. Figur. 
Cic. Seu ruet, seu eriget rempublicam, 
prostrate, overthrow, ruin. -IT Also, 
to throw or tear out or up. Lucret. Ma¬ 
re permotum ventis ruitarenam. Virg. 
Venti mare ruunt a sedibus imis. Id. 
Vela dabant, et spuinas salis are rue- 
ban t, dashed through the foam of the sea 
with their beaks (literally threw out or up 
the foam or spray). Id. (Ignis) ruit 
atram ad ccelum nubem, drives up, car¬ 
ries up. Herat. Unde divitias arisque 
ruam acervos, may get, find, draw. 
RuPkS (unc.), is, f. a rock, especially a 
precipitous one, crag, cliff, steep, ipi-nvy, 
poiyds. Ovid. Pendentes rape capellas 
pascere. Id. Caucasea rupes. Virg. 
Phoebo gaudet Parnassia rupes. Liv. 
Rupem pandere, or munire, make passa¬ 
ble, pervious. — Also, a rock in the sea, 
shelf. Stat. Undisonte rupes. Virg. 
Velut rupes, vastum qua prodit in 
requor. Val. Flacc. In medio rupes )a- 
tet horrida ponto. — Virg. Cava rupes, 
chasms or clefts of the rocks, hollows, 
caverns. Id. Sibylla rupe sub ima fata 
canit, h. e. cave. 
ROPeX (unc.), icis, m. -a hard, clownish 
3 man, boor, rustic, lout, cuddy. Oell. 
RuPrCXPRX (rupes & capra), a, f. prop- 
erly, goat of the rocks; a chamois; ac¬ 
cording to Hard., wild goat. Plin. 
R0PIC3, onis, m. same as Rupex. 3 Apul. 
RuPiNa (rupes), a, f. a rock or rocky 
3 place, cleft of a rock. Apul. 
RuPTIM, adv. C®s. B. C. 1, 5. Ed. 
3 Oudend. a false reading for raptim. 
R0PTI8 (rumpo), onis, f. a breaking or 
3 tcarinir; injury, pyyfl. Pandect. 
R0PT8R (Id.), oris, m.abreaker, violator, 
2 nullifier, pi/sriK* Liv. Ruptor fcedens 
humani. Tacit. Ruptorespacis. 
RuPTuRX (Id.), a, f. amptureol a limb, 
injury, &c. Gell. (Al. leg. ruptw, or 
rupti .) 
RuPTOS, a, um, particip. from rumpo. 
RuRaLIS (rus), e, adj. of or belonging to 
3 the country , rural , rustic , aypoTKog. Ne- 
mesian. Apollo. Ammian. negotia. 
RuRaLIT£R (ruralis), adv. more rusti- 
3 corum. Cassiod. 
R0RATI8 (ruro), onis, f. rural life, hus- 
3 bandry, rural economy. Apul. 
RuReSC 8 (rus), is, n. 3. to become rural. 
2 Enn. ap. Charis. (Al. leg. rarcscant.) 
RuReSTIUS (Id.), e, adj. relating to the 
3 country or the field, rural, rustic, aypoi- 
kos, yuopytsds. Apul. arva. Pandect. 
opus, field-labor, rustic work. 
R0RIC5LA (rus & colo), a, adj. tilling 
2 the field, rustic, rural, country, aypoiKOf. 
Ovid. Ruricola Cereri assurgite. Id. 
Ruricola deus, h. e. Priapus. Id. bo- 
ves. Id. aratrum. — Hence, Ruricola, 
country people, rustics. Ovid, and Colum. 
RuRICOLaRIS (ruricola), e, adj. relating 
3 to tillage, cultivating the field, rustic. 
Ven. Fort, cultores. 
RuRIGENa (rus & gigno), a, m. or f. one 
3 born in the country; a countryman, ms- 
tic. Ovid. Rurigena pavere feram. 
RuRINX (rus), a, f. sc. dea, a rural deity 
3 of the Romans. Augustin. Civ. D. 4, 8. 
Some read rnsina. _ . 
R0R8 (rus), as, n. 1. and RuR8R, aris, 
3 dep. I. to live in the country, carry on 
husbandry, dypavXe ro. Plaut.. uni Varr. 
RuRSUS, and RuRSUM (contracted from 
revorsus, revorsum, h. e. reverses,^ re- 
versum), adv. backwards, back, ottutgj- 
Plaut. Quum sursum ad summum es- 
cenderis, periculum esse, a summo ne 
rursum cadas,/ail back. Cats. Rursum 
se recipit. Cic. Rursum trahere (ali- 
quid). Hence, Plaut. Rursum versum 
accedere, backwards. Tercnt. Rursum 
prorsum; or, Enn. ap. Non. Rursus 
prorsus, backwards and forwards. So, 
Varr. ap. Non. Rursus ac prorsus. -- 
IT Also, again, on the other hand, on the 
contrary. Cic. Quod neque amplectere- 
tur artem, neque rursus earn totam re- 
pudiaret. Tacit. Quern casum neque 
ambitiose, neque per lamenta rursus ac 
mcerorem muliebriter tulit. Quintil. 
Rursus quidam arbitrantur.-II Also, 
again, a. second time, afresh , anew, avoiy. 
Terent. Die hoc rursum. Cic. Facis, 
ut rursus plebs in Aventinum sevocan- 
da esse videatur. Coes. Rursus instare. 
-II With reverti, rcduccrc, redire, &.C. 
it is used redundantly. Cies., Tercnt.., 
&c. And even Plaut. Revortor (rever 
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tor) rursus denuo Cartliaginem. -, 
H The ancients said also rusmn, fot 
rursum .— Hence, Rusor, a god, to whom 
sacrifices were made, because all things re¬ 
turn to the place whence they come. Varr 
ap. Augustin. 
R0S (unc.), ruris, n. the country, field 
fields, dypos, dypotsia. Hirt. Rura co- 
lentes, tilling the fields. Horat. l’aterna 
rura bobus exercere. Plin. Coli rura 
ab ergastulis, pessimum est. Virg. 
Florea rura. Id. Aspera dumis rura. 
Horat. Honores ruris. Virg. Ruris 
opaci unibne. — Also, the country as 
opposed to the town, village, farm, 
country seat, estate in the country. Te¬ 
rent. Ego rus ibo, into the country, h. e. 
to my country scab or farm. Cic. Habet 
rus amcenum, country seat, country es¬ 
tate. Id. Rura peragrantes, country 
scats or estates. Terent. Ex meo pro- 
pinquo rure. Ovid. Rure frui. •— The 
acc. answers to the question, Whither'! 
and the abl. the question, Whence! or 
Where! Terent. Rus ibo (as above). 
Cic. Vivere ruri; and, Horat. Rure, 
in the country. Plaut. Redire ruri; or, 
Tercnt. and Cic. Rure, from, &c. Liv. 
Rure morientem. - IT Figur. the 
country, h. e. rusticity, country ways, 
rudeness, uncouthness. Catull. Pleni 
ruris et inficetiarum annales. Horat. 
Manent vestigia ruris. 
RuSCaRIOS (ruscum), a, um, adj. relat- 
3 inir to butchers-broom, adapted thereto .' 
Cato R. R. 11. (Ed. Gcsn.). falculs. 
(Yet in Varr. R. R. 1, 22. where these 
instruments are mentioned, rustariee is 
read in Ed. Gesn.; both, perhaps, have 
the same sense.) 
RuSCOLUM (diniin. from ms), i, n. a lit- 
3 tie country seat or farm. Gell. 
RuSCUM, i, n. or RuSCOS, i, f. a shrub 
of which they made brushes or brooms; 
butchers-broom (Ruscus aculeatus, L.), 
dlvpvpaivy. Virg. and Plin. 
RUSE, anciently for Rure. Varr. 
RUSeLL/E, arum, f. a town of Etruria. 
— Hence, Rusellanus, a, um, adj. of or 
pertaining to Rusellee. Plin. and Liy. 
Hence, Rusellani, the inhabitants. Liv. 
RuSINX, as, f. See Rurina. 3 
R0S8R, oris, m. 3 See Rursus, at the end. 
RuSPOR (unc.), aris, dep. I. to seek dih- 
3 gently, search, explore, e^eptvvdio. Acc. 
ap. Non. and Apul. -11 Ruspare,/or 
ruspari. 1'ertull. 
RuSSaTOS (russus), a, um, adj. red; 
2 hence, dressed in red. Tertull. — Gne 
of the parties of charioteers in the cir¬ 
cus was dressed in red, hence called 
factio russata. Hence, Plin. Russatus 
auriga. 
R0SSE6L0S, a, um, adj. dnnin. from rus- 
3 seus. Prudent. 
RuSSEOS (russus), a, um, adj. red, red- 
2 dish. Petron. 
RuSSOLOS, a, um, adj. dimin. from rus- 
3 sus. Capitol. 
ROSSOS (unc.), a, um, adj. red. Lucret. 
3 velum. Catull. Russam defricare gm- 
givam. Gell. color. Enn. ap. Cic. lau- 
ces (galli gallinacei). 
RuSTaRIOS, a, um. See Ruscanus. ■< 
RuSTICaNOS (rusticus), a, um, adj. of 
or pertaining to the country (field, village, 
farm, &c.), in the country, rustic, kic. 
vita, country life (limited, however, 
residence in the country, while Ruslica 
vita denotes country life with all tM 
occupations pertaining thereto). • 
homines, country people, h. e. ' loho ‘ l J 
the country and are engaged in hush.uiu r i, 
whether noblemen or peasants. la. JU j 
quod loquitur, priscum visum in p». s 
plane fueritrusticanum. —Hence, abso. 
Rusticanus, a countryman, rustic. ■ 
ROSTICATIM,adv./orRustice. Porapo ■ 
3 ap. Non. . . . .n. 
ROSTICATia (rusticor), onis, f. a dice 
1 ing in the country, country life, rusticat 
Cic. -IT Also, husbandry. CoU ™[.:. 
RuSTICf. (rusticus), adv. like a m « > 
rustically. Cic. loqm. Herat. R' ns 
us toga defluit. — Hence, 
cally, h. e. awkwardly, % ossl 3l , ™ °l j n3 - 
In, rudely, uncivilly. Cic. Urgent- r 
tice sane, negant enim posse. I ■ 
cere rustice. front 
ROSTICeLLOS, a, um, adj. dmun. 
3 rusticulus. Varr. ap Um. 
