Aurora  rubra.  Propert. — RUBICUXDUS,  blood-red,  very  red.  Acutis
oculis,  ore  rubicundo.  Plaut.  Rubicunda  cornua  lunae.  Hor. — PUR-
PUREUS, purple- coloured.  Pallium  purpureum.  Cic.  //  is  used  by  poets
to  express  a  high  shining  colour,  so  that  it  sometimes  signifies  a  great
whiteness.  Brachia  purpurea  candidiora  nive.  Ovid.
2155.  Ructare.  Eructare.
RUCTARE  and  RUCTARI,  to  belch.  Cui  ructare  turpe  esset,  is  vo-
muit.  Cic.  Aves  etiam  nunc  ructor  quas  mihi  apposuisti,  Varr.,  Even
at  this  time  the  birds  you  have  helped  me  to,  rise  in  my  stomach.  Fi-
guratively :  Sublimes  versus  ructari,  Hor.,  To  write  hastily  very  in-
correct verses. — ERUCTARE,  (ructare  e)  to  belch  or  throw  up.  Saniem
eructans,  ac  frusta  cruenlo  per  somnum  commixta  mero.  Virg.  Fi-
guratively: Accubantes  in  conviviis  eructant  sermonibus  caedem  bo-
norum.  Cic.  Vastaque  voragine  gurges  aestuat,  atque  omnem  Cocyto
eructat  arenam.  Virg.
2156.  Rudus.  Cadaver.  Eunus.
RUDUS,  rubbish  of  old  ruinous  houses  fallen  to  the  ground.  JEris
acervi,  cum  rudera  milites  religione  inducti  jacerent,  post  profectio-


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nem  Annibalis  magni  invent!.  Liv. — CADAVER,  (fromcadere)  a  car-
case, a  dead  body.  Aqua  turbida  et  cadaveribus  inquinata.  Cic.  Di-
lapsa  tabo  cadavera,  Virg.,  speaking  of  bullocks.  Cicero  has  used  ca-
davera,  speaking  of  towns.  Cum.  uno  loco  tot  oppidorum  cadavera
projecta  jaceant.  It  is  without  any  foundation  that  latter  grammarians
will  have  cadaver  to  be  caro  data  vermibus ;  as,  for  the  same  reason,
we  might  say  that  papaver  is  pabulum  datum  vermibus,  which  is  non-
sense.— FUNUS,  such  as  we  consider  it  in  this  article,  is  properly  said  of
a  corpse  that  has  been  buried.  Omnia  Deiphobo  solvisti  et  funeris  um-
bris.  Virg.  Quae  nunc  artus,  avulsaque  membra,  et  funus  lacerum
tell  us  habet.  Id.
2157.  Rupes.  Scopulus.
