CARVE Copy link • CARVEcoelare (from κοῖλος: to work figures in relief on metals, especially silver, ivory, etc; also m wood, Verg. Freund writes caelare): scalpare: sculpere (the former of work but little raised, like ξέειν: the latter like γλύφειν, of works in half or whole relief. So Müller, Archaeol, 108): insculpere: scribere: inscribere (of cutting Inscript.). To carve anything in gold, aliquid auro or in auro coelare: to carve in stone, aliquid e saxo sculpere or exsculpere: to carve in marble, to carve statues in marble, scalpere marmora (Cic.): to carve flowers, scalpere flores (Vitr.). To carve anything on a tree or wood, aliquid in robore insculpere. To carve meat, secare: scindere (a whole animal): in frusta excutere (of dividing into small portions what had been partially carved, Sen.): carpere (of dividing into portions with the fingers, Petronius). To carve out a way or passage with one’s sword, ferro sibi viam facere. Apportion or arrange arbitrarily for one’s self aliquid sibi arripere: *aliquas res, prout libet (or ad arbitrium suum, ad libidinem. etc.) describere ac disponere: to carve secundum artem, certis ductibus circumferre manum eruditam (Sen.): to carve well, decenter secare aliquid (e.g., altilia. Sen.).