*imagine expressus: figuratus (e.g., oratio, verbum, (Quint.): translatus (metaphorical; e.g., verbum, opposed to verbum proprium): mutatus (Cic., Or., 27, “a translatis distinguit mutata, ita ut illa ad metaphoram... haec ad tropos pertineant.” Ern., Lex. Rhet., p. 405): a figurative expression, verborum immutatio (Cic., Brut., 17, 69): to use a word in a figurative sense, verbum assumere (Quint., 1, 121).