- Aer
- Light blue
- Albens rosa
- Pale gray, or possibly pale pink.
- Albus
- White
- Amethystinus (purpura amethystina)
- Amethyst purple
- Amygdala
- Almond, light tan
- Aureus
- Golden yellow
- Caesicius
- Sky blue
- Callainus
- Green-turquoise
- Calthulus
- Marigold yellow
- Carinus
- Walnut brown, dark brown with red overtones
- Cerasinus
- Cherry red
- Cereus
- Wax yellow, brownish yellow, perhaps identical to
cerinus
- Cerinus
- Brownish yellow
- Coccinus, coccineus (coccum)
- Scarlet
- Conchyliatus (conchyliatum)
- Pale lavender
- Coracinus
- Raven-black, perhaps shiny black like a raven's feathers
- Crocotulus
- Reddish orange
- Croceus
- Saffron yellow, red-orange or yellow with orange
overtones, perhaps identical to crocotulus
- Cumatilis
- Sea blue
- Erythraeus
- A natural reddish hue of wool
- Ferrugineus
- A somewhat purplish red
- Flammeus
- Reddish orange
- Fuscus
- Brown with a reddish tinge
- Galbinus
- Yellow-green
- Glandes
- Chestnut brown
- Heliotropium
- Reddish blue-red
- Hyacinthinus
- Reddish violet
- Hysginus (hysginum)
- Scarlet
- Ianthinus
- Violet
- Indicum
- Indigo blue
- Luteus
- Yellow-red
- Malva
- Mauve
- Molocinus
- Mauve
- Niger
- Black, or very dark brown
- Ostrinus (ostrum)
- Reddish purple. If the color ostrinus had a red tinge was indicated by descriptions of the hue as rubens, red; sanguineus, bloody; and puniceus, scarlet
- Paphiae myrti
- Dark green
- Prasinus
- Bluish green, pea green
- Pullus
- Gray, according to Ovid; also black or a very deep
brown-black, the color of mourning
- Puniceus, phoenicius, poenicius
- Scarlet
- Purpura
- Purple; the four major shades were ater, dark;
lividus, pale; ruber, red; and violaceus, blue
- Purpureus laconicus
- Dark rose purple
- Purpureus Tyrius (purpura dibapha Tyria)
- Light rose purple
- Ruber Tarentinus
- Reddish violet
- Russus, russeus, russatus
- Bright red
- Thalassinus
- Purple of undetermined hue
- Threicia grus
- Gray
- Tyrianthinus
- Violet purple
- Undae
- Sea blue? darker blue?
- Venetus
- Dark blue
- Violaceus
- Violet
- Viola serotina
- Blue-red
- Violeus
- Violet
- Viridis
- Green
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