(adj.adv.) : rustĭcus, a, um, adj.rus
* Of or belonging to the country, rural, rustic, country- (very freq. and class.; syn. agrestis; opp. urbanus).
* Lit.: vita,Varr. R. R. 3, 1, 1; cf.: vita haec rustica, quam tu agrestem vocas,Cic. Rosc. Am. 27, 75: duae vitae hominum, rustica et urbana,id. ib. 17, 48: Romani (opp. urbani),Varr. R. R. 2, praef. § 1; cf. plebes (opp. urbana), Col. praef. § 17; praedia,Cic. Rosc. Am. 15, 42: hortus,Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 15: instrumentum,Phaedr. 4, 4, 24: opus,Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 90: res,Cic. de Or. 1, 16, 69; 1, 58, 249; Col. praef. § 19 sq.: homo (with agricola),Cic. Rosc. Am. 49, 143; id. N. D. 3, 5, 11: colona,Ov. F. 2, 645; cf. Phidyle,Hor. C. 3, 23, 2: mus (opp. urbanus),id. S. 2, 6, 80; 115: gallinae,heathcocks,Varr. R. R. 3, 9, 16; Col. 8, 2, 1 sq. (cf. infra, B. 2. b.): numina,Ov. M. 1, 192: fistula,id. ib. 8, 191: sedulitas,id. F. 6, 534: regna,id. H. 4, 132: opprobria versibus alternis,Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 146: carcer,Juv. 14, 24.
* Substt.
* Transf., countrylike, rustic, simple, in a good or (more freq.) in a bad sense, i. e. plain, simple, provincial, rough, coarse, gross, awkward, clownish, etc. (in this sense not freq. till after the Aug. period; previously, as in Cic., agrestis was more used): rustica vox et agrestis quosdam delectat, etc. ... neque solum rusticam asperitatem, sed etiam peregrinam insolentiam fugere discamus,Cic. de Or. 3, 11, 42; 12, 44: pro bardā et pro rusticā haberi,Plaut. Pers. 2, 1, 2: rusticus inlitteratusque litigator,Quint. 2, 21, 16: manus (with indoctae),id. 1, 11, 16; cf. with indoctus,id. 12, 10, 53; with barbarus,id. 2, 20, 6; (opp. disertus) 7, 1, 43: id vitium sermonis non barbarum esse, sed rusticum,Gell. 13, 6, 2: Germana illuvies, rusticus, hircus, hara suis, etc.,a lout, clown,Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 39 Lorenz ad loc.: rusticus es, Corydon,Verg. E. 2, 56: quid coeptum, rustice, rumpis iter?Ov. Am. 3, 6, 88: addidit obscenis convicia rustica dictis,id. M. 14, 522: sive procax aliqua est; capior, quia rustica non est,very prudish,id. Am. 2, 4, 13; cf. id. A. A. 1, 607: nec tamen est, quamvis agros amet illa feraces, Rustica,id. Am. 3, 10, 18.—In a good sense: mores,Cic. Rosc. Am. 27, 75: veritas,Mart. 10, 72, 11. —Comp.: simus hoc titulo rusticiore contenti,Sen. Ep. 88, 33.—Hence, adv.: ru-stĭcē (acc. to II.), in a countrified manner, clownishly, boorishly, awkwardly: loquinon aspere, non vaste, non rustice,Cic. de Or. 3, 12, 45: urgere,id. Off. 3, 9, 39: facere aliquid,id. Att. 12, 36, 2: cum eo vitio loquentes rustice loqui dictitabant,Gell. 13, 6, 2.— Comp.: rusticius toga defluit,Hor. S. 1, 3, 31.—Sup. does not occur.
* Rustĭca, ae, f.
* A country girl, Ov. M. 5, 583.
* (Sc. gallina.) A heath-cock, Mart. 13, 76 (cf. supra, A., and rusticulus, II. B.).