v. exponere, proponere, propalam collocare (to expose in public fo show): spectacula pandere (Hor.). To exhibit a service of silver plate, paintings, and statues, argentum proponere, tabulas et signa propalam collocare. Apelles used to exhibit his works in a stall, after their completion, for the passers-by to see, Apelles perfecta opera proponebat pergula transeuntibus: to exhibit goods (for sale), merces exponere, venales proponere: ☞ exhibere must be used carefully, its use being far less extensive than that of our “exhibit :” it is used of exhibiting documents, etc., in a court, tabulas, rationes, etc.; of exhibiting one’s self in any character, colors, etc., to anybody, exhibere se aliquid [quid me putas ... populo nostro exhibiturum? Cic.].