(adjective) : fulvus, a, um, v. fulgeo
* Deep yellow, reddish yellow, gold-colored, tawny (mostly poet.): corpora leonum,Lucr. 5, 902; cf. Hor. C. 4, 4, 14: tegmen lupae,Verg. A. 1, 275: canis Lacon,Hor. Epod. 6, 5: cassis equinis jubis,Ov. M. 12, 88: boves,Plin. 22, 5, 5, § 9: vitulus,Hor. C. 4, 2, 60: caesaries,Verg. A. 11, 642: arena,id. ib. 12, 741: aurum,id. ib. 7, 279; cf.: subtemen (auri),Sil. 7, 80: cera,Plin. 21, 14, 49, § 83: color vini,id. 14, 9, 11, § 80: sidera,Tib. 2, 1, 88.—Hence, poet. transf.: Olympus,Val. Fl. 7, 158: lumen,Verg. A. 7, 76: nubes,id. ib. 12, 792 (but not in Lucr. 6, 461, where furva is the right reading): aquila,Verg. A. 11, 751; cf.: ales Jovis,id. ib. 12, 247: nuntia Jovis, Cic. poët. Leg. 1, 1, 2: virgae,i. e. withering stalks,Ov. M. 10, 191.—Hence, subst.: fulvum, i, n., reddish-yellow, Sol. 17, 5.

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