The corpus record — Latin

incanus

incanus · adj

quite gray

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Tacitus 1 · 3.24/10k
Domitianus 1 · 2.91/10k
De vita Hadriani 1 · 1.95/10k
Rudens 1 · 0.84/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

in-cānus — Lewis & Short

in-cānus, a, um, adj.,

I quite gray, hoary (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): homo crispus, incanus, Plaut. Rud. 1, 2, 37: mentum, Verg. G. 3, 311: barba, Col. 8, 2, 9: labra Famis, Ov. M. 8, 804: caput, Suet. Dom. 20. —Poet.: saecula, hoary centuries, Cat. 95, 6.

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