ex-prōmo, mpsi (msi), mptum (mtum), 3, v. a., to take out or forth, to draw out, fetch out, bring forth (syn. proferre).
I Lit. (rare): heminas octo in urceum, Plaut. Mil. 3, 2, 18: mox inde sensim ad mandendum manibus expromit, Plin. 10, 72, 93, § 199: maestas voces, Verg. A. 2, 280.—
II Trop., to show forth , discover , exert , practise , exhibit , display (class.; syn. proferre).
A In gen.: exprome benignum ex tete ingenium, Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 64; cf.: quidquid est incoctum non expromet, bene coctum dabit, id. ib. 2, 2, 53: supplicia in civis Romanos, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 53, § 139: in meo inimico crudelitatem exprompsisti tuam, id. Mil. 13, 33: vim eloquentiae in ea causa, id. Or. 36, 125: omnem industriam vitae et vigilandi laborem in antelucanis cenis, id. Cat. 2, 10, 22: suum odium, id. Att. 2, 12, 2: sed quid ego vestram crudelitatem expromo, id. Dom. 23, 60: vel hilarissimum convivam hinc indidem expromam tibi, I'll show myself to you , Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 72. (In Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 9, promat, v. Ritschl ad h. l.)—
B In partic., of speech, to utter , disclose , declare , state (syn.: exponere, narrare, etc.): occulta apud amicum, Ter. Heaut. 575: sed jam exprome, si placet, istas leges de religione, Cic. Leg. 2, 7, 17: sententiam, Tac. A. 12, 9: multas mente querelas, Cat. 64, 223: causas, Ov. F. 3, 725 et saep.—With acc. and inf. or rel.-clause as object: expromit, repertum in agro suo specum altitudine immensa, Tac. A. 16, 1: quid in quamque sententiam dici possit, expromere, Cic. Div. 2, 72, 150: expromerent, quid sentirent, Liv. 29, 1, 7: indignationem expromens, Vell. 2, 19.
V —Hence, expromptus , a, um, P. a., ready , at hand : nunc opus est tua mihi exprompta malitia atque astutia, Ter. And. 723.