figurative Copy link Outline 1. translātus (transferred from one application to another)2. assumptus • figurative: 1. translātus (transferred from one application to another): every thing is described in f. language, for the sake of effect, omnia, quo essent clariora, translatis per similitudinem verbis dicta sunt, Cic. de Or. 3, 39, 157. Join: translata et aliena [verba]: opp. to propria et sua, Cic. de Or. 3, 37, 149. 2. assumptus: f. expressions, assumpta verborum proprietas, Quint. 10, 1, 121. Phr.: to use a f. expression, verba [alicujus rei propria] in aliam rem transferre, Cic. de Or. 3, 42, 167: a f. mode of speech, traductio et immutatio, Cic. de Or. l. c.: the same is expressed in a more ornamental manner by f. language, inflexo commutatoque verbo res eadem enuntiatur ornatius, Cic.: a f. style, "dictio translationibus, traductionibus, immutationibus verborum distincta atque ornata.