I.golden yellow, reddish yellow, flaxen-colored, ξανθός (mostly poet.): “color,” Col. 4, 3, 4: “mellis dulci flavoque liquore,” Lucr. 1, 938; 4, 13: “mella,” Mart. 1, 56, 10: “aurum,” Verg. A. 1, 592: “Ceres,” id. G. 1, 96; cf. “of the same: et te, flava comas, frugum mitissima mater,” Ov. M. 6, 118: mare marmore flavo, Enn. ap. Gell. 2, 26 (Ann. v. 377 ed. Vahl.): “arva,” Verg. G. 1, 316: “crines,” id. A. 12, 605: “coma,” Hor. C. 1, 5, 4; cf.: “Galanthis flava comas,” Ov. M. 9, 307: “flavus comarum Curio,” Sil. 9, 414: “Ganymedes,” Hor. C. 4, 4, 4: “Phyllis,” id. ib. 2, 4, 14: “Chloë,” id. ib. 3, 9, 19: Tiberis, reddish yellow (from the puzzolan earth on its ground), id. ib. 1, 2, 13; 1, 8, 8; “2, 3, 18: Tiberinus multa flavus harena,” Verg. A. 7, 31; Ov. M. 14, 447: “Lycormas,” id. ib. 2, 245: “pudor,” blushing, Sen. Hippol. 652: “capillus in flavum colorem,” Vulg. Lev. 13, 36; 30.— Subst.: an de moneta Caesaris decem flavos, gold pieces (cf. Engl. yellow-boys), Mart. 12, 65, 6.—Comp.: flavior, Boëth. ap. Porphyr. Dial. 2, p. 31.
flāvus , a, um, adj. for flag-vus from FLAG, flagro, burning, light-colored,