Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Fucus

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

FUCUS (φύκος). Rouge; an article frequently employed by the Greek and Roman women, as it is by those of modern Europe, in order to give the appearance of a brilliant or youthful tint to a complexion already used up or naturally sallow. (Plaut. Most. i. 3. 118. Prop. ii. 18. 31.) It was prepared from a certain kind of moss (Lichen roccella L.), and was laid on with a brush, as in the annexed example (Fucus/1.1), from a fictile vase; or with the finger, as exhibited in other designs of the same nature.

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  Fucus/1.1