hue Copy link Outline I. ColourII. Alarm-cry for the pursuit of thieves, etc. • hue: I. Colour: cŏlor: v. colour. May often be expr. by an adj., as a flower of a grassy hue, herbaceus flos, Plin.: v. grassy, greenish, etc. II. Alarm-cry for the pursuit of thieves, etc.: Phr.: to raise the hue and cry after a thief, furem clamare (conclamare, of a number joining to do so): after the anal. of incendium conclamare, Sen. Ir. 3, 43, 3: cf. Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 36. (The phr. praemandatis requirere, Cic. Pl. 12, 31, refers to the sending of a letter of instructions to a magistrate for the arrest of a person.)