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ex-pingo , pinxi, pictum, 3, v. a.,
I.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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    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 35.49
    • Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, 5.39
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