expingo

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

ex-pingo, pinxi, pictum, 3, v. a., to paint, depict; to paint, paint over.

I Lit.: quoniam et pericula expingimus, ne quis miretur et rogos pingi, Plin. 35, 7, 31, § 49: genas, to paint , rouge , Mart. 7, 83, 2: cutem, id. 8, 52, 8: se (Thamar), Tert. Cult. Fem. 12. —

II Trop., of speech, to picture , depict , describe to the life : qui motus hominum, qui ferarum non ita expictus est, ut quae ipse non viderit, nos ut videremus, effecerit? * Cic. Tusc. 5, 39, 114 (see the passage in connection).

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