DISPLAY Copy link • DISPLAY 1. To set to view ostentatiously, ostentare aliquid: in promptu ponere (to set before people’s eyes, in general; Vid: Cic., Off., 1, 35, 126): proponere (set forth to view; e.g., his plate, argentum, Cic.): propalam collocare (e.g., tabulas, signa, Cic.): prae se ferre (litrally, to carry before one’s self, to make a show of): expromere (to bring forth or to light): venditare or ostentare (to display one’s learning, literulas suas, in a contemptuous sense). To display for sale, aliquid venale exponere or proponere. To exhibit, ostendere (to show openly, to lay before the eyes of people; e.g., potestatem suam, one’s power): patefacere (to reveal, discover; e.g., odium in aliquem): exhibere (alicui: e.g., one’s good will, benevolentiam): praebere alicui (to prove anything to anybody e.g., fidelity, fidem): praestare (alicui, to render, to show by one’s conduct; e.g., fidem, benevolentiam, animum): probare (to give proof of; e.g., virtutem): navare (anything towards anybody, in aliquem, with accessary notion of its being done with anxiety; e.g., studium alicui; benevolentiam suam in aliquem). To DISPLAY ITSELF, apparere (to come to light); also elucere (litrally, to shine forth; e.g., friendship displays itself more among those that are of the same age, amicitia magis elucet inter aequales). His character displays itself, *indoles ejus sese ostendit or clarius conspicitur; more and more, ejus ingenii vires in dies magis elucent. [Vid: To DISCOVER itself.] To carve, to cut up; Vid: these words. 2. s. Exhibition of, Vid: In a contemptuous sense, ostentatio; e.g., display of one’s learning, *doctrinae suae venditatio quaedam atque ostentatio; of one’s knowledge, etc., ostentatio artis et portentosa scientiae venditatio (as Plin., 29, 1, 8, § 25, speaking of the barefacedness of medical men). By circumlocution, he set out his plate for display, argentum proposuit; tabulas et signa propalam eollocavit (Vid: Cic., De Or., 1, 35, 161): to make a display of one’s learning; Vid: To DISPLAY.