I. Of roses, rose- (rare, for rosaceus): “strophium,” Verg. Cop. 32: “vinculum,” Sen. Med. 70: flores, i. e. roses, Claud. de Magnete, 29: “convalles,” filled with roses, id. Rapt. Pros. 3, 85. —
II. Rose-colored, rosy (freq., esp. in the Aug. poets): “pannus,” Plin. 21, 23, 94, § 166 (Jahn, russeus); 29, 4, 17, § 64 (Jahn, russeus); “30, 11, 30, § 99 (Jahn, russeus): nitor quidam in purpurā,” id. 37, 9, 40, § 123; cf. “color (with purpureus),” id. 14, 1, 3, § 15: “flos herbae,” id. 25, 6, 26, § 62: “roseā sol alte lampade lucens,” Lucr. 5, 610; cf. id. 5, 976; so, “Phoebus,” Verg. A. 11, 913: “Aurora,” Lucr. 5, 656; also, “dea,” Ov. A. A. 3, 84; cf. “of the same, os,” id. M. 7, 705: “equi,” Tib. 1, 3, 94; Ov. F. 4, 714: “bigae,” Verg. A. 7, 26: “Eous,” Prop. 3 (4), 24, 7. cf.: “alae (Luciferi),” Val. Fl. 6, 527: “nubes (Iridis),” id. 4, 77.—Transf., a poetical epithet of any thing blooming with youth, esp. parts of the body, rosy, ruddy, blooming: “labella,” Cat. 80, 1: “labra,” Mart. 8, 56, 15: “os (Veneris),” Verg. A. 2, 593: “genae,” id. ib. 12, 606: “cervix,” id. ib. 1, 402; Hor. C. 1, 13, 2: “juventa,” Val. Fl. 8, 257.
