(adjective) : fuscus, a, um, for fur-scus; cf. furvus, v. Georg Curtius Gr. Etym. p. 304
* Dark, swarthy, dusky, tawny (class.; cf.: pullus, niger): purpura plebeia ac paene fusca,Cic. Sest. 8, 19: cornix, id. poët. Div. 1, 8, 14: illi sint comites fusci, quos India torret,Tib. 2, 3, 55; cf. Andromede,Ov. H. 15, 36: Hydaspes,Hor. S. 2, 8, 14; also transf.: Syene,Mart. 9, 36, 7: nubila,Ov. M. 5, 286; cf.: alae noctis,Verg. A. 8, 369; and transf.: amictus (somni),Tib. 3, 4, 55: Falerna,Mart. 2, 40, 6.—Comp.: altera (fraxinus), brevis, durior fusciorque,Plin. 16, 13, 24, § 63: laterna,i. e. dark,Mart. 14, 62.—As denoting misfortune: fuscis avibus Larissam accessi,App. M. 2, 124.
* Transf., of the voice, indistinct, husky, hoarse (opp. candidus): et vocis genera permulta: candidum (al. canorum) fuscum, leve asperum, grave acutum, etc.,Cic. N. D. 2, 58, 146 Mos. and Orell. N. cr.; cf.: est (vox) et candida et fusca et plena et exilis, etc.,Quint. 11, 3, 15; Plin. 28, 6, 16, § 58: hic etiam fusca illa vox, qualem, etc.,Quint. 11, 3, 171 (for which Cic. Brut. 38, 141, subrauca).

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