a bright red colour, cerussa, red sandalwood, Pterocarpus santalinus
a bright red colour, also called ἀρμένιον, Str. 11.14.9 (prob. cj.); obtained by heating ψιμύθιον ( = cerussa), Dsc. 5.88, cf. Plin. HN 35.40; though a like colour was made from a plant of the same name, red sandalwood, Pterocarpus santalinus, Sosib. 21, Verg. Ecl. 4.45, Plin. l.c., Lyd. Mag. 3.64.
2 flesh-coloured womenʼs garments
pl., flesh-coloured womenʼs garments dyed with this colour, in Lydia, ibid.
3 a kind of salve
a kind of salve, prob. a pink mixture of zinc oxide and carbonate, Dsc. l.c., Gal. 12.244, Hsch.
II casket
casket, Id. [ū in genit., Prop. 2.19.81; but ŭ in Grattius Cyn. 86.] (Assyr. sâmtu, sându ‘red stone’, prob. cinnabar.)