pitch black
Latin word, found 48 times in the texts on Socratos.
Vergil, Georgics 2.257: difficile est: piceae tantum taxique nocentes
Vergil, Aeneid 3.573: turbine fumantem piceo et candente favilla,
Ovid, Heroides 12.67: Est nemus et piceis et frondibus ilicis atrum;
All forms of piceus