explicatio: explanatio: interpretatio (a making clear, interpreting): enarratio (a continuous explanation of a writer; Quint., 1, 9, 1, etc.): definitio (the determining an idea, definition): enodatio (of difficulties in a subject). To give a careful and accurate explanation of difficult passages, *quae explicatione egent, diligenter et accurate interpretari (Muret.): to admit of another explanation, *aliam interpretationem admittere (Herm.). To have come to an explanation with anybody, se purgasse alicui (to have justified one’s self to him); aliquis satisfecit mihi or se mihi purgavit (another has justified himself to me); or by collocutum esse cum aliquo de re.