I.redness of all shades, cf. Gell. 2, 26, 5 (class.).
I. In gen.: “candore mixtus rubor,” Cic. N. D. 1, 27, 75: “medicamenta ruboris,” id. Or. 23, 79; cf. Ov. M. 3, 491; id. Am. 3, 3, 5 sq.: “cui plurimus ignem Subjecit rubor,” Verg. A. 12, 66 sq.: “quidam ruboris acerrimi,” Sen. Q. N. 1, 14, 2; Plin. 11, 38, 91, § 224: “in ore impudentia multo rubore effusa,” Plin. Pan. 48, 4; Tac. Agr. 45: “cocci,” Plin. 10, 22, 29, § 56.—Plur.: “Tyrios incocta rubores,” i. e. purple, Verg. G. 3, 307: “molles rubores,” Sen. Herc. Oet. 664.—
II. In partic., a blush.
A. Lit.: “pudorem rubor consequitur,” Cic. Tusc. 4, 8, 19: “Masinissae haec audienti non rubor solum suffusus, sed lacrimae etiam obortae,” Liv. 30, 15: “verecundus,” Ov. M. 1, 484; cf. id. ib. 2, 450; 4, 329; “6, 47.—In a comic equivoque: in ruborem te totum dabo,” I will make you red all over, Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 9 (cf. id. Truc. 2, 2, 37 sq.).—
B. Meton. (causa pro effectu), shamefacedness, bashfulness, modesty (syn. pudor; “not freq. till after the Aug. per.): (orator) praestet ingenuitatem et ruborem suum verborum turpitudine et rerum obscenitate vitandā,” Cic. de Or. 2, 59, 242; cf.: “ruborem incutere,” Liv. 45, 37 fin.: “ruborem afferre,” Tac. A. 13, 15: “vox, quae vel rabulae cuivis ruborem inicere potest,” to put to the blush, Auct. Her. 4, 10, 14: “vultu modesto ruborisque pleno (shortly after: verecundia oris),” Suet. Dom. 18: “proprius,” Tac. H. 4, 7: “antiquitatis,” Plin. 36, 1, 2, § 4.—
2. Esp., after the Aug. per., by a further meton. (like pudor), the cause of shame; shame, disgrace: “censoris judicium nihil fere damnato nisi ruborem affert,” Cic. Rep. 4, 6, 6: “nec tunicam tibi sit posuisse, rubori,” Ov. Am. 3, 14, 21; cf.: “duas res ei rubori fuisse, unam, quod, etc.,” Liv. 45, 13; 4, 35, 11; so, “rubori est (alicui),” Tac. A. 14, 55 fin.; 11, 17; “for which also: nec rubor est emisse palam,” Ov. A. A. 3, 167; Tac. G. 13: “minorem quippe ruborem fore in juris iniquitate, quam si, etc.,” Liv. 4, 35 fin.; cf.: “nil tua facta ruboris habent,” Ov. H. 20, 204: “rubor ac dedecus penes omnes,” Tac. H. 1, 30: “saepe minus est constantiae in rubore quam in culpā,” Curt. 9, 7, 25.
