Lewis & Short

encaustus (encaut-), a, um, adj., = ἔγκαυστος, burned in, encaustic.

  1. I. Adj.: genus pingendi, the encaustic mode of painting, Plin. 35, 11, 41, § 149; cf., respecting it, O. Müller, Archäol. § 320: Phaëthon, Mart. 4, 47, 1.
  2. II. Subst.: en-caustum (encaut-), i., n., = ἔγκαυστον, the purple-red ink of the later Roman emperors, Cod. Th. 7, 20, 1; August. contra Faust. 3, 18; Cod. Just. 1, 23, 6 al.