Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Russatus

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. 

RUSSA'TUS. Clothed in red; especially employed to designate a driver (auriga) in the chariot races of the circus, who belonged to the red party (factio russata), and wore a red tunic to distinguish him from his competitors, whose colours were respectively white, green, or blue. Plin. H. N. vii. 54. Inscript. ap. Reines, cl. 5. n. 63.