1. pingo — Lewis & Short
pingo, pinxi, pictum, 3, v. a.,
I to represent pictorially with the pencil or needle, to paint, embroider (cf.: depingo, delineo, adumbro).
I Lit.:
quas (comas) Dione Pingitur sustinuisse manu,is represented in painting, Ov. Am. 1, 14, 34; Cic. Fam. 5, 12, 7:
tabulas,id. Inv. 2, 1, 1:
tabula picta,a painting, picture, id. Brut. 75:
pingere hominis speciem,id. de Or. 2, 16, 69:
Helenae simulacrum,id. Inv. 2, 1, 1:
Nero princeps jusserat colosseum se pingi,Plin. 35, 7, 33, § 51.—Prov.:
quae dicunt ii, qui numquam philosophum pictum, ut dicitur, viderunt, of those who speak of things they know nothing about,Cic. Fin. 5, 27, 80.— Of embroidering (with or without acu):
textile stragulum, magnificis operibus pictum,Cic. Tusc. 5, 21, 61:
pingere acu,Ov. M. 6, 23:
picti reges,in embroidered garments, Mart. 10, 72, 7:
picti tori,with embroidered coverlets, Ov. H. 12, 30:
toga,the embroidered toga worn by a triumphing commander, Lampr. Alex. Sev. 40:
tapetes,Vulg. Prov. 7, 16.—Pass. in mid. force:
pingi,to paint the face, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 11.—
B Transf.
1 To paint, stain, color with any thing (mostly poet.):
palloribus omnia pingunt,Lucr. 4, 311; 2, 375:
sanguineis frontem moris et tempora pingit,Verg. E. 6, 22; 2, 50; Mart. 14, 5, 2:
multas facies,Juv. 9, 146:
oculos,id. 2, 94; so,
oculos stibio,Vulg. Jer. 4, 30. —Esp., to tattoo:
Agathyrsi ora artusque pingunt iisdem omnes notis, et sic ut ablui nequeunt,Mel. 2, 1, 10:
membraque qui ferro gaudet pinxisse Gelonus,Claud. in Ruf. 1, 313.—
2 To adorn, decorate, embellish:
herbas floribus,Lucr. 5, 1396:
bibliothecam aliquā re,Cic. Att. 4, 5, 3:
stellis pingitur aether,Sen. Med. 310.—
II Trop., of style, to paint, color, embellish:
verba,Cic. Brut. 37, 141:
tabula, quam Cleanthes sane commode verbis depingere solebat,id. Fin. 2, 21, 69:
locus, quem ego varie meis orationibus soleo pingere,id. Att. 1, 14, 3:
modo mihi date Britanniam, quam pingam coloribus tuis penicillo meo,id. Q. Fr. 2, 15, a, 2:
hunc (virum) omnibus a me pictum et politum artis coloribus subito deformatum vidi,id. Att. 2, 21, 4.—Hence, pictus, a, um, P. a., painted, colored, of various colors.
A Lit.:
volucres,Verg. A. 4, 525:
pelles,id. G. 4, 342:
absint et picti squalentia terga lacerti,id. ib. 4, 13:
puppes,id. A. 5, 663:
carinae,id. ib. 8, 93.—
B Transf., tattooed:
Geloni,Verg. G. 2, 115:
Agathyrsi,id. A. 4, 146 Forbig. ad loc.; Prisc. Perieg. 302.—
2 Of style, ornamented, ornate: orationis pictum et expolitum genus, Cic. Or. 27, 96:
Lysiā nihil potest esse pictius,id. Brut. 95, 293.—
3 Merely painted, i. e. unreal, false, deceptive, empty, vain:
pictos experiere metus,Prop. 4 (5), 6, 50.