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fuligo

fuligo, soot

fūlīgo, ĭnis, f. [cf. fumus; v. Fick, Vergl. Wörterb. p. 104], soot.
  • I Lit.: os oblitum fuligine, Plaut. Poen. 5, 4, 36 (1209): quasi fuligine abstersa, Cic. Phil. 2, 36, 91; Col. 11, 3, 60; Verg. E. 7, 50: lucubrationum bibenda, Quint. 11, 3, 23: (haerens) nigro fuligo Maroni, Juv. 7, 227.—
    • B Transf., black paint (= stibium): supercilium madidā fuligine tactum, Juv. 2, 93.—*
  • II Trop., paint: atra verborum et argutiarum fuligine ob oculos audientium jacta, Gell. 1, 2, 7.

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