I.a dark (acc. to Rom. taste, beautiful) head of hair, the hair (mostly poet.; only sing.).
1. Of men (so most freq.), Plaut. Mil. 1, 2, 64: “ipsa decoram Caesariem nato genitrix afflarat,” Verg. A. 1, 590: “nitida,” id. G. 4, 337: flava, *Juv. 13, 165: pectes caesariem, *Hor. C. 1, 15, 14: “umeros tegens,” Ov. M. 13, 914: “terrifica,” id. ib. 1, 180: “horrida fieri,” id. ib. 10, 139: “horrifica,” Luc. 2, 372 et saep.—In prose: “promissa,” Liv. 28, 35, 6; Vulg. Num. 6, 5.—
B. Transf., the hair of dogs, Grat. Cyn. 272.—
II. Barbae, the hair of the beard (very rare), Ov M. 15, 656.