dē-pingo — Lewis & Short
dē-pingo, pinxi, pictum, 3 (
I 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, 15, 48.—
II To embroider:
depictas gemmatasque indutus paenulas,Suet. Calig. 52:
auro depicta chlamys,Val. Fl. 6, 226.