I. Of color, of the color of iron-rust, dark-red, dusky, ferruginous: “palliolum habeas ferrugineum, nam is colos thalassicust,” Plaut. Mil. 4, 4, 43: “vela lutea, russa, ferrugina,” Lucr. 4, 76: “cymba,” Verg. A. 6, 303 (= κυανέη, for which: “caerulea puppis,” id. ib. 6, 410): “hyacinthi,” id. G. 4, 183: “frons anguis,” Stat. Th. 1, 600: “nemus (inferorum),” id. ib. 2, 13; cf.: “amictus Plutonis,” Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2, 275.—
II. Of taste, like iron, ferruginous: “sapor fontis,” Plin. 31, 2, 8, § 12.
