dē-pingo Copy link Outline I. To depict, portray, paint, draw, represent by painting ...A. Lit.2. To paint, colorB. Trop., by speech or in thought, to portray, represent, sketch, describe, imagine, conceive ...II. To embroider • dē-pingo, pinxi, pictum, 3 (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.