I.forbidding, harsh, crabbed, gloomy, sour, stern, severe (perh. not ante-Aug.; cf.: “tristis, severus): puella,” Ov. A. A. 1, 721: “Sabinae,” id. Am. 3, 8, 61: “taetricus et asper censor udorum,” Mart. 12, 70, 4: “lector,” id. 11, 2, 7: “deae,” i. e. the Fates, id. 4, 73, 6; 7, 96, 4: “taetrica ac tristis disciplina Sabinorum,” Liv. 1, 18, 4: “animus (ccupled with horridus),” Sen. Ep. 36, 3: “febres,” Mart. 6, 70, 8: “tubae,” fierce, warlike, id. 7, 80, 2.
taetrĭcus (tētr- ), a, um, adj. taeter,