depict Copy link Outline I. With the pencil1. pingo, dēpingo, nxi, ctum, 32. ĭmĭtor, 13. pōno, pŏsui, pŏsĭtum, 3 (to place or represent)4. effingo, nxi, ctum, 35. repraesento, 1II. In words1. descrībo, psi, ptum, 32. dēpingo, 33. exprĭmo, pressi, pressum, 3 (to represent exactly) • depict: I. With the pencil: 1. pingo, dēpingo, nxi, ctum, 3: v. to paint. 2. ĭmĭtor, 1: to d. the beauty of the Coan Venus, Coae Veneris pulchritudinem im., Cic. 3. pōno, pŏsui, pŏsĭtum, 3 (to place or represent): that his figure should be d.'d foremost, ut prima ejus imago poneretur, Nep. (cf. Hor. A. P. 34). 4. effingo, nxi, ctum, 3: to d. the catastrophe in gold, casus ef. auro, Virg.: to d. a countenance, lineamenta oris ef., Cic. 5. repraesento, 1: Plin.: v. to represent. Phr.: to d. a cypress tree, cupressum simulare, Hor.: to d. a dolphin in the woods, delphinum appingere silvis, Hor. II. In words: 1. descrībo, psi, ptum, 3: to d. a rainbow, pluvium arcum d, Hor.: v. to describe. 2. dēpingo, 3: more precisely, sermone depingere, Cic. Rep. 2, 29. 3. exprĭmo, pressi, pressum, 3 (to represent exactly): to d. the portrait of a brave man, imaginem fortissimi viri ex., Cic.: to d. Charybdis from imagination, Charybdim fingendo ex., Cic. Join: exprimere et polire (effigiem), Cic.: v. to describe, represent.