incanus

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

in-cānus, a, um, adj.,

quite gray , hoary (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): homo crispus, incanus, Plaut. Rud. 1, 2, 37: mentum, Verg. G. 3, 311: barba, Col. 8, 2, 9: labra Famis, Ov. M. 8, 804: caput, Suet. Dom. 20. —Poet.: saecula, hoary centuries , Cat. 95, 6.

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