engrave Copy link Outline 1. scalpo, psi, ptum, 3; also sculpo, etc. (for the supposed difference between the two words see Dr. Smith's Dict. Ant. s. v. SCALPTURA)2. incīdo, di, sum, 3 (esp. of letters or similar characters cut in stone, metal, etc.)3. insculpo, 3 (upon something)4. caelo, 1 (in metal) • engrave: 1. scalpo, psi, ptum, 3; also sculpo, etc. (for the supposed difference between the two words see Dr. Smith's Dict. Ant. s. v. SCALPTURA): to e. a plaint upon a tomb, sepulcro querelam scalpere, Hor.: to e. an anchor on a precious stone, in gemma ancoram sculpere, Just.: to e. figures in relief, typos scalpere, Plin. 35, 11, 40 § 25: cf. also id. 35, 10, 65. 2. incīdo, di, sum, 3 (esp. of letters or similar characters cut in stone, metal, etc.): laws e.d on bronze, leges in aes incisae, Liv.: Cic. (who has in aere incisum, Verr. 4, 65, 145): Suet. 3. insculpo, 3 (upon something): to e. the amount of a man's fortune on his tombstone, summam patrimoni ins. saxo, Hor. Fig.: nature has e.d on our minds a belief in the blessedness of the gods, natura insculpsit in mentibus ut (deos) beatos haberemus, Cic. N. D. 1, 17, 45. 4. caelo, 1 (in metal): v. to chase. Phr.: his features remain e.d on the heart, haerent infixi pectore vultus, Virg.
ENGRAVE Copy link • ENGRAVEscalpere: sculpere (according to some, scalpere, with its compounds, is applied to coarse and rude; sculpere, with its compounds, to finished work: others think that scalpere is to cut into the material, as in intaglios; sculpere to produce raised figures, as in cameos; Vid: Dict. Antiqq., p. 860. ☞ CARVE): incidere: insculpere (with the graving tool; hence, also figuratively, to “engrave” on the mind): scribere: inscribere (to engrave words; an inscription). To engrave anything on brass, on a pillar, incidere aliquid in aes [or in aere, Cic., Verr., 2, 4, 65], in columna. (The words are found in this connection and order.) incidere et perscribere; incidere ac notare (Cic.; of what is to serve as a record, etc.); on a tomb, incidere aliquid in sepulcro (Cic.), sepulcro (Hor.); on a tree, inscribere aliquid arbori; describere aliquid in cortice (Verg.): to engrave gems, gemmas scalpere (Plin.); a seal, sigillum scalpere (Plin.); a ring, on the stone of which an anchor was engraved, annulus, in cujus gemma anchora sculpta est. Alexander would not allow his likeness to be engraved on gems by anybody but Pyrgoteles, Alexander edicto vetuit, in gemma se ab alio scalpi quam a Pyrgotele. It is engraven, as it were, on the minds of all men, that, etc., omnibus quasi insculptum est, etc. (accusative and infinitive.) In the modern sense of engraving prints, in aes incidere; simulacrum alicujus rei in aes incidere.