dē-pingo, pinxi, pictum, 3 (perf. syncop. depinxti, Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 154), v. a.
I To depict, portray, paint, draw, represent by painting (rare but class.).
A Lit.: tabellas obscenas, Prop. 2, 6, 27: pugnam Marathoniam, Nep. Milt. 6, 3: imaginem in tabula, Quint. 6, 1, 32; cf. Gell. 19, 10, 2: depinge, ubi sistam, Pers. 6, 79: idola in pariete, Vulg. Ezech 8, 10.—
2 To paint, color : oculos stibio, Vulg. 4 Reg. 9, 30.—
B Trop., by speech or in thought, to portray, represent, sketch, describe, imagine, conceive : formam verbis, Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 154; cf. Quint. 8, 3, 63: in illa (sc. republica), quam sibi Socrates Peripatetico illo in sermone depinxerit, Cic. Rep. 2, 29: vitam hujusce, Cic. Rosc. Am. 27, 74: minuta quaedam nimiumque depicta, too elaborately defined , id. Or. 12, 39: quidvis cogitatione, i. e. to imagine , id. N. D. 1, 15, 39; cf. id. Ac. 2 ( Luc. ), 15, 48.—
II To embroider : depictas gemmatasque indutus paenulas, Suet. Calig. 52: auro depicta chlamys, Val. Fl. 6, 226.