EXPOSE Copy link • EXPOSEexponere alicui rei (to place out, and thus to expose to the influence of a thing; in good prose only PROP.): opponere alicui rei (to set over against, to oppose, especially to hold up on account of hostile force and for protection; PROP. and figuratively): objicere alicui rei, ad or in aliquid (to throw in the way, and so to expose to accident and hostile power): proponere (to set anything forth; to place it as a common mark or butt; e.g., to all the arrows of fate, omnibus telis fortunae): offerre alicui rei or in aliquid (to bring or place over against, figuratively for to expose). A place exposed to the sun, locus solibus expositus: during the whole day, locus, qui toto die solem accipit: a chamber exposed to the sun, cubiculum, quod ambitum solis fenestris omnibus sequitur; cubiculum, quod plurimus sol implet et circumit or quod plurimo sole perfunditur (which almost always has the sun): cubiculum, quod totius diei solem fenestris amplissimis recipit (the whole day): to expose a wound to the cold, vulnus frigori objicere or committere: to expose the naked roots to the cold of winter, nudatas radices frigori hiberno opponere: to be exposed to the cold, vim frigoris excipere: to expose anybody to the danger of death, objicere aliquem morti: to expose one’s safety, one’s life to danger, in discrimen offerre salutem or vitam suam: to expose one’s self to the danger of death for anybody, se pro aliquo in periculum capitis atque in vitae discrimen inferre: to expose one’s life, one’s self to the rage of the citizens, caput suum furori civium objicere: to expose one’s self to dangers, se opponere, offerre, committere periculis (☞ se exponere periculis is not good); pericula adire, or inire, or subire: to expose one’s self to all kinds of dangers, ad omne periculum se opponere: to expose one’s self to danger for anybody, se pro aliquo offerre periculis or in discrimen; pro alicujus salute se in dimicationes objicere: to be exposed to every sudden danger, ad omnes casus subitorum periculorum objectum esse: to expose one’s self to the enemy, to the darts of the enemy, copiis, telis hostium se objicere: to expose one’s self to envy, se offerre invidiae; invidiam subire: to expose one’s self to various kinds of blame, in varias vituperationes incurrere: to be more exposed to hatred, ad reprehendendum apertiorem esse: exposed to a danger, periculo obnoxius: exposed to fortune, fortunae objectus. “To be exposed to anything,” also patere alicui rei; i. e., to lie, as it were, open and defenceless against its assaults. Virtue is exposed to many and uncertain trials, virtus subjecta sub varios incertosque casus: our life is exposed to all the arrows of fate, omnibus fortunae telis proposita est vita nostra: anybody’s life is less exposed to the blows of fortune, alicujus minus multa patent, quae fortuna feriat. To expose for sale, venditare: proponere: venale proponere (to expose in public for sale): proscribere (to expose or offer for sale by public notice). To be exposed for sale, licere, venum ire (general term): venalem pendere (to hang out for sale, to be offered for sale by a public notice). To expose a person, mittere aliquem in ora populi, or in fabulas sermonesque hominum; traducere aliquem per ora hominum (to make him the common talk, etc.): evolvere aliquem tegumentis dissimulationis suae, nudareque (unmask him, Liv., 34, 24; Cic., De Or., 2, 86, 351). To expose a child, exponere infantem. Exposed, i. e., uncovered, unprotected, nudus, apertus (unprotected, etc.); objectus (e.g., fortunae); obnoxius: to stand exposed, ad omnes ictus expositum esse (to be exposed to all blows); patere (to be open to the invasions of the enemy; of countries; also IMPROP.; e.g., vulneri, morbis).