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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• paint (v.):
  1. A. Trans.:
    1. I. To represent by colours, to adorn by means of them: pingo, nxi, ctum, 3: to p. pictures, tabulas p., Cic. Inv. 2, init.: to p. the likeness of a man, hominis speciem p., id. de Or. 2, 16, 69: also, p. Alexandrum, to p. (the portrait of) Alexander, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 239. Comps. (1). dēpingo, 3 (same sense): to p. the battle of Marathon, pugnam Marathoniam d., Nep. Milt. 6: Quint. (2). expingo, 3 (rare): Plin. 35, 7, 31. Phr.: to p. in encaustic, picturas inurere, Plin. l. c.
    2. II. To colour:
      1. 1. indūco, xi, ctum, 3 (to lay or smear over): originally with the subs. for paint, colour, expressed: cf. Hor. A. P. 2, varios inducere colores: Plin. 35, 6, 26, ovo inducere purpurissum, i. e. to lay on purple with white of egg: also absol.: nowadays whole walls are p.'d, nunc toti parietes inducuntur, Vitr. 7, 5, fin. (as distinguished from the true decorative art, l. c. § 2, sqq.): to p. the walls of a house with vermilion, parietes minio i., id. 7, 9, 2. Vitr. also uses the constr. of acc. and dat.: cf. supr.
      2. 2. fūco, 1: p.'d boards, fucatae colore tabulae, Tac. A. 2, 14: Hor. Esp. to p. the face (use cosmetics): Quint. 8, pref. § 19.
      3. 3. expingo, 3: to p. the cheeks, genas ex., Mart. 7, 83: Tert. (N.B.--Expolio includes the whole of decorative art: cf. Vitr. 7, 9, 2.)
    3. III. Fig.: to represent as if with colours; to depict:
      1. 1. pingo, dēpingo, 3: the theme which I am wont to p. with varied colouring in my own speeches, locus quem ego varie meis orationibus soleo p., Cic. Att. 1, 14, 4: to p. any one's life and character, vitam alicujus depingere, id. R. Am. 27, 74: to p. any one in his true colours, *alicujus vitam moresque suis coloribus expingere.
      2. 2. exprĭmo, descrībo, 3: v. to describe, represent.
  2. B. Intrans.:
    1. I. To execute pictures: pingo, 3: his daughter also p.'d, cujus filia et ipsa pinxit, Plin. 35, 9, 35 § 59 (usu. better expr. tabulas).
    2. II. To use colour: Phr.: colorem fuco mentiri, Quint. 2, 15, 25; genas expingere, Mart.: v. supr. (II.).