picture
picture
subs.
P. ζωγράφημα, τό, P. and V. γρᾰφή, ἡ, γράμμᾰ, τό, V. ἄ̆γαλμα, τό, εἰκών, ἡ.
Met., representation: P. and V. μί̄μημα, τό, εἰκών, ἡ.
Account, description: P. and V. λόγος, ὁ.
Give a picture of, describe, met.: P. and V. διέρχεσθαι, Ar. and P. διεξέρχεσθαι.
subs.
P. ζωγράφημα, τό, P. and V. γρᾰφή, ἡ, γράμμᾰ, τό, V. ἄ̆γαλμα, τό, εἰκών, ἡ.
Met., representation: P. and V. μί̄μημα, τό, εἰκών, ἡ.
Account, description: P. and V. λόγος, ὁ.
Give a picture of, describe, met.: P. and V. διέρχεσθαι, Ar. and P. διεξέρχεσθαι.
picture
v. trans.
Describe: see describe.
Picture to oneself: P. and V. νοεῖν (or mid.), ἐννοεῖν (or mid.).
v. trans.
Describe: see describe.
Picture to oneself: P. and V. νοεῖν (or mid.), ἐννοεῖν (or mid.).
PICTURE
s. pictura; tabella (picta): picture of anybody alicujus picta imago effigies. Vid: PAINTING.
s. pictura; tabella (picta): picture of anybody alicujus picta imago effigies. Vid: PAINTING.
v. pingere; depingere. To picture anything to one’s self cogitatione sibi aliquid depingere. Vid: PAINT.
picture (subs.):
I. In colours:
1. tăbŭla picta: Ter. Eun. 3, 4, 36: to hang good p.s in a good light, t. bene pictas in bono lumine collocare, Cic. Br. 75, 261. Also without picta; when the context defines: so in the prov., manum de tabula! take your hand from the p.! have done! Cic. Fam. 7, 25. Dimin., tăbella (a small p. or one of a less elevated subject, e. g. "genre" picture): Cic. Fam. 7, 23: Plin.
2. pictūra (strictly the art of painting; hence, meton. a picture): Cic. Verr. 4. init. (p. in tabula, in textili).
II. Fig., of a verbal delineation: Phr.: he draws a vivid p. of the battle, *speciem formamque pugnae ita expingit, ut propemodum oculis cernere videamur, cf. Cic. Tusc. 5, 39, 114; *pugnae quasi imaginem quandam pictam ob oculos ponit: what a charming p. is this! *quam venusta haec est imago!
I. In colours:
1. tăbŭla picta: Ter. Eun. 3, 4, 36: to hang good p.s in a good light, t. bene pictas in bono lumine collocare, Cic. Br. 75, 261. Also without picta; when the context defines: so in the prov., manum de tabula! take your hand from the p.! have done! Cic. Fam. 7, 25. Dimin., tăbella (a small p. or one of a less elevated subject, e. g. "genre" picture): Cic. Fam. 7, 23: Plin.
2. pictūra (strictly the art of painting; hence, meton. a picture): Cic. Verr. 4. init. (p. in tabula, in textili).
II. Fig., of a verbal delineation: Phr.: he draws a vivid p. of the battle, *speciem formamque pugnae ita expingit, ut propemodum oculis cernere videamur, cf. Cic. Tusc. 5, 39, 114; *pugnae quasi imaginem quandam pictam ob oculos ponit: what a charming p. is this! *quam venusta haec est imago!
picture (v.): in words, expingo, nxi, ctum, 3: Cic. (v. preced. art. fin.): also, dēpingo, 3: Cic. Rep. 2, 29: v. TO PAINT , DEPICT . Also, sometimes, fingo, 3: v. TO IMAGINE .