Gray: hoare. Absynthium canum. Ouid. Hoare or grey. Amator canus. Tibul. An olde louer. Anilitas cana. Catul. Capilli cani. Horat. Barba cana. Martial. Caput canum. Ouid. Coma cana. Senec. Crines cani. Catul. December canus. Martial. Hoare with srost. Fauilla cana. Ouid. Cana fides. Virg. Olde faithfulnesse and integritie. Fila cana. Ouid. Fluctus cani. Cic. Wanes white with fome. Flumina cana. Virg. Gelo canum. Virg. Laurea cana. Ouid. Lupi cani. Ouid. Mala cana. Virg. Cani montes. Virg. White with snowe. Nix cana. Horat. Plumæ canæ. Ouid. Pruina cana. Virg. Hoare. Puella cana. Propert. Puluis canus. Claud. Salicta cana. Ouid. Segetes canæ. Ouid. Senectus cana. Ouid. Situs canus. Plin. Vnmednesse. Cana veritas. Varro. Olde truth of the world past. Cani villi arborum. Plin.

I. Lit.: fluctus, Lucr. 2, 767; Cic. Arat. 71; hence aqua, foamy, frothy, Ov. H. 2, 16: nix, white, Lucr. 3, 21; Hor. S. 2, 5, 41: gelu, Verg. G. 3, 442: montes, id. ib. 1, 43: pruina, hoar-frost, Hor. C. 1, 4, 4: grandine canus Athos, Ov. Ib. 200: salicta, id. M. 5, 590: segetes, id. ib. 10, 655: aristae, id. ib. 6, 456: lupus, id. ib. 6, 527; 7, 550: favilla, id. ib. 8, 524: color equi, Pall. Mart. 14, 4: arborum villi, Plin. 12, 23, 50, 108: situs, id. 12, 25, 55, 125.—

B. Esp. freq. of the gray hair of the aged: cano capite atque albā barbā, Plaut. Bacch. 5, 1, 15; id. As. 5, 2, 84; Cat. 68, 124; Tib. 1, 1, 72; Ov. F. 5, 57: capilli, Hor. C. 2, 11, 15; Ov. M. 1, 266; 2, 30; 4, 474; Phaedr. 2, 2, 10: crinis, Cat. 64, 350; Ov. M. 13, 427: barba, Mart. 4, 36 al.—Hence, subst. in plur.: cāni, ōrum, m. (sc. capilli), gray hairs: non cani, non rugae repente auctoritatem arripere possunt, Cic. Sen. 18, 62; Ov. M. 3, 275; in Aug. and post-Aug. poets (esp. freq. in Ovid) with adjj.: falsi, Ov. M. 6, 26: honorati, id. ib. 8, 9: positi, id. ib. 14, 655: rari, id. ib. 8, 567: sui, id. ib. 10, 391: miseri, Pers. 5, 65: venerandi. Sen. Herc. Fur. 1249.—Hence,

II. Transf., of age and of aged persons. old, aged: senectus, hoary, Cat. 108, 1: anilitas, id. 61, 162: amator, Tib. 1, 8, 29: cana veritas, venerable, Varr. ap. Non. p. 243, 1: Fides, Verg. A. 1, 292: Vesta, id. ib. 5, 744.