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.
