aperire (open; general term, in almost every sense of “disclose’): pandere: expandere (to open; of flowers, etc., florem): nudare: retegere (to disclose thoughts, secrets, etc.): expromere: in medium proferre (to publish for the advantage, etc., of others): manifestum facere: patefacere (to reveal; e.g., a crime, plot, etc.): enunciare: vulgare: in lucem proferre (to reveal what one should keep secret): communicare aliquid cum aliquo (to communicate it to him, consilium suum cum aliquo): prodere (to betray): detegere (common after Augustan age; does not occur in Caes.; Cic., joins patefactus et detectus; insidias, L.; consilium, Liv.; mentem, Quint.; animi secreta, Q.): indicare (e.g., rem patri, Ter.; alicui de epistolis): indicium alicujus rei afferre ad aliquem (Cic.); indicium deferre ad aliquem (Tac.; to disclosea crime to a magistrate; of an accomplice). To disclose to anybody all one’s secrets, omnia arcana apud aliquem expromere: to disclose the secrets of one’s heart, animi arcana proferre: he discloses his opinion, sententiam suam aperit: to the captain of the vessel who he is, domino navis, quis sit, aperit: to disclose the mysteries, enunciare mysteria: to disclose itself, se aperire (general term, and especially of flowers): se pandere; florem expandere (of flowers): dehiscere (Plin.; of the rose): se detegere (to discover itself; e.g., mores - se detegunt): we must wait till the thing discovers itself, exspectandum, dum se ipsa res aperiat. ☞ For disclosing thoughts, etc., recludere and reserare are almost entirely poetical.