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.)
HUE Copy link • HUEColor, dye, Vid: When hue is used of a shade of color with an adjective, in -ish (as in “of a greenish hue”), inclinari or languescere in, with accusative of the hue; e.g., color in aurum or in luteum inclinatus (Plin.): color in luteum languescens (Plin., 27, 13, 109); but there are also separate participles for some colors: of a darkish hue, nigricans: of a greenish hue., viridans. Sometimes sentire is used with accusative: white, with somewhat of a violet hue, candidus color violam sentiens; or exire or desinere in with accusative (e.g., optimi carbunculi sunt ii, quorum extremus igniculus in amethysti violam exit, Plin.; fulgor amethysti in violam desinit: these last of a slight hue). Hue and cry, (a) PROPR., To raise a hue and cry after anybody, clamare aliquem furem (Hor., Ep., 1, 16, 36). (b) IMPROPR., (as printed description of felons, etc.) praemandata, -orum (☞ Cic., Planc., 13, 31, Wunder, p. 106); libellus, quo fugitivi nomen continetur et cetera (or fugitivorum nomina continentur, Apul., Met., 6, p. 176, 7). To put anybody into the hue and cry, praemandatis aliquem requirere (Cic., l. c.); spargere libellos, quibus alicujus nomen continetur et cetera (Apul., l. c.).