represent
represent
v. trans.
Portray: P. and V. εἰκάζειν, P. παραδεικνύναι.
Represent in a bad light: P. κακῶς εἰκάζειν περί (gen.) (Plat. Rep. 377e).
Represent as: P. κατασκευάζειν, Ar. and P. ἀ̆ποφαίνειν.
He will represent us as drunkards and brawlers: P, ἡμᾶς . . . παροίνους μέν τινας καὶ ὑβριστὰς κατασκευάσει (Dem. 1261).
He tried to represent that I was the cause of what occurred in Euboea: P. τῶν ἐν Εὐβοίᾳ πραγμάτων . . . ὡς ἐγὼ αἴτιός εἰμι κατεσκεύαζε (Dem. 550).
He has represented the rowers one and all as bowmen: P. τοξότας γὰρ πάντας πεποίηκε τοὺς προσκώπους (Thuc. 1.10; cf. Eur. Tro. 981).
Imitate: P. and V. μῑμεῖσθαι, ἐκμῑμεῖσθαι (Xen. also Ar.).
Represent by imitation: P. ἀπομιμεῖσθαι.
Represent (a character): P. ὑποκρίνεσθαι.
Represent Antigone: P. Ἀντιγόνην ὑποκρίνεσθαι.
When he represented the sorrows of Thyestes: P. ὅτε μὲν τὰ Θυέστου . . . κακὰ ἠγωνίζετο (Dem. 449).
It is the special privilege of third-rate actors to represent kings and sceptered personages: P. ἐξαίρετόν ἐστιν ὥσπερ γέρας τοῖς τριταγωνισταῖς τὸ τοὺς τυράννους καὶ τοὺς τὰ σκῆπτρα ἔχοντας εἰσιέναι (Dem. 418).
Suggest: Ar. and P. εἰσηγεῖσθαι; suggest.
Point out, show: P. and V. δεικνύναι, δηλοῦν ; see show.
Represent a person, look after his interests: P. and V. προξενεῖν (gen.).
Champion: P. and V. προστᾰτεῖν (gen.).
I as representing the greatest city ask you to come to terms: P. ἐγὼ . . . πόλιν μεγίστην παρεχόμενος . . . ἀξιῶ . . . συγχωρεῖν (Thuc. 4.64).
I came forward though with no mandate to represent our house: V. ἐξῆλθον οὐ ταχθεῖσα πρεσβεύειν γένους (Eur. Herac. 479).
v. trans.
Portray: P. and V. εἰκάζειν, P. παραδεικνύναι.
Represent in a bad light: P. κακῶς εἰκάζειν περί (gen.) (Plat. Rep. 377e).
Represent as: P. κατασκευάζειν, Ar. and P. ἀ̆ποφαίνειν.
He will represent us as drunkards and brawlers: P, ἡμᾶς . . . παροίνους μέν τινας καὶ ὑβριστὰς κατασκευάσει (Dem. 1261).
He tried to represent that I was the cause of what occurred in Euboea: P. τῶν ἐν Εὐβοίᾳ πραγμάτων . . . ὡς ἐγὼ αἴτιός εἰμι κατεσκεύαζε (Dem. 550).
He has represented the rowers one and all as bowmen: P. τοξότας γὰρ πάντας πεποίηκε τοὺς προσκώπους (Thuc. 1.10; cf. Eur. Tro. 981).
Imitate: P. and V. μῑμεῖσθαι, ἐκμῑμεῖσθαι (Xen. also Ar.).
Represent by imitation: P. ἀπομιμεῖσθαι.
Represent (a character): P. ὑποκρίνεσθαι.
Represent Antigone: P. Ἀντιγόνην ὑποκρίνεσθαι.
When he represented the sorrows of Thyestes: P. ὅτε μὲν τὰ Θυέστου . . . κακὰ ἠγωνίζετο (Dem. 449).
It is the special privilege of third-rate actors to represent kings and sceptered personages: P. ἐξαίρετόν ἐστιν ὥσπερ γέρας τοῖς τριταγωνισταῖς τὸ τοὺς τυράννους καὶ τοὺς τὰ σκῆπτρα ἔχοντας εἰσιέναι (Dem. 418).
Suggest: Ar. and P. εἰσηγεῖσθαι; suggest.
Point out, show: P. and V. δεικνύναι, δηλοῦν ; see show.
Represent a person, look after his interests: P. and V. προξενεῖν (gen.).
Champion: P. and V. προστᾰτεῖν (gen.).
I as representing the greatest city ask you to come to terms: P. ἐγὼ . . . πόλιν μεγίστην παρεχόμενος . . . ἀξιῶ . . . συγχωρεῖν (Thuc. 4.64).
I came forward though with no mandate to represent our house: V. ἐξῆλθον οὐ ταχθεῖσα πρεσβεύειν γένους (Eur. Herac. 479).
REPRESENT
To depict or describe the form of a thing repraesentare (Plin. Quint.; to set clearly before the view): exprimere: fingere: effingere (to express; of an artist): pingere: depingere (to paint): reddere et offerre alicui aliquid (of the memory): oculis sub oculos or sub aspectum alicujus subjicere aliquid (of persons by description etc.). The artist represented him in the act of sacrificing artifex eum sacrificantem expressit.
To describe mimetically to sustain the person of agere. To represent an individual alicujus partes agere: alicujus personam induere suscipere or gerere (either on the stage or otherwise): to represent a play fabulam dare (☞ not fabulam docere which means “to train the actors”).
To bring before the mind give notice of aliquem de aliqua re monere or with ut or ne (to admonish): aliquem aliquid docere (to instruct): ostendere alicui aliquid (or with an accusative and infinitive): to represent to anyone the impossibility of a thing alicui ostendere rem fieri non posse: to represent to one the benefits of a thing aliquem docere quanta sit alicujus rei utilitas: to represent to one’s self cogitare: animo cogitare: cogitatione sibi fingere: animo sibi effingere: animo concipere: aliquem or aliquid oculis or ante oculos proponere: aliquem aliquid sibi proponere: cogitare de aliquo or de aliqua re: ☞ repraesentare aliquid or sibi aliquem does not occur until the Silver Age.
To be in the place or act on behalf of anyone agere aliquem or pro aliquo (☞ not se agere aliquem): gerere or sustinere alicujus personam (☞ not agere alicujus personam): vicem alicujus implere (Plin. Ep.).
To depict or describe the form of a thing repraesentare (Plin. Quint.; to set clearly before the view): exprimere: fingere: effingere (to express; of an artist): pingere: depingere (to paint): reddere et offerre alicui aliquid (of the memory): oculis sub oculos or sub aspectum alicujus subjicere aliquid (of persons by description etc.). The artist represented him in the act of sacrificing artifex eum sacrificantem expressit.
To describe mimetically to sustain the person of agere. To represent an individual alicujus partes agere: alicujus personam induere suscipere or gerere (either on the stage or otherwise): to represent a play fabulam dare (☞ not fabulam docere which means “to train the actors”).
To bring before the mind give notice of aliquem de aliqua re monere or with ut or ne (to admonish): aliquem aliquid docere (to instruct): ostendere alicui aliquid (or with an accusative and infinitive): to represent to anyone the impossibility of a thing alicui ostendere rem fieri non posse: to represent to one the benefits of a thing aliquem docere quanta sit alicujus rei utilitas: to represent to one’s self cogitare: animo cogitare: cogitatione sibi fingere: animo sibi effingere: animo concipere: aliquem or aliquid oculis or ante oculos proponere: aliquem aliquid sibi proponere: cogitare de aliquo or de aliqua re: ☞ repraesentare aliquid or sibi aliquem does not occur until the Silver Age.
To be in the place or act on behalf of anyone agere aliquem or pro aliquo (☞ not se agere aliquem): gerere or sustinere alicujus personam (☞ not agere alicujus personam): vicem alicujus implere (Plin. Ep.).
represent:
I. To pourtray:
1. repraesento, 1: to r. the images of absent objects to the mind, r. imagines rerum absentium animo, Quint. 6, 2, 29: to r. the virtue of Cato, r. virtutem Catonis, Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 14: Niceratus r.'d Alcibiades (in a play), Niceratus repraesentavit Alcibiadem, Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 88: stage players r. grief, artifices scenici repraesentant tristitiam, Sen. Ep. 11, 7.
2. ĭmĭtor, 1: to r. deep anguish by the pencil, summum luctum penicillo i., Cic. Or. 22, 74: to r. the misfortunes of heroes by oratory, heroum casus i. dicendo, id. de Or. 2, 47, 194: to r. poems by acting, i. carmina, Liv. 7, 2. Join: exprimere et i., Hor. A. P. 33.
3. exprĭmo, pressi, pressum, 3 (to delineate): to r. the figure of a man, e. hominis imaginem, Plin. 35, 12, 44: to r. this scene in verse, hanc speciem e. versibus, Cic. Div. 1, 36, 79: Quint.: v.EXPRESS , DESCRIBE .
4. sĭmŭlo, 1 (mostly poet.): to r. a cypress, cupressum s., Hor. A. P. 20: with acc. and inf. in Ov. M. 6, 80.
5. fingo, finxi, fictum, 3 (to form, delineate): to r. a consummate orator, summum oratorem f., Cic. Or. 2, 7.
6. făcio, fēci, factum, 3: v.TO MAKE (A. VII.).
7. expr. by verbs which denote the special art by which an object is r.'d: as, to r. (by painting), pingere; v.PAINT : (in sculpture), sculpo; v. TO SCULPTURE . Phr.: an image of the goddess which did not r. her under a human form, simulacrum deae non effigie humana, Tac. H. 2, 3: not only his form and countenance but also his honour and glory is r.'d, non modo species et vultus sed honor etiam et gloria refertur, Plin. Ep. 2, 7, extr.: to r. the Cyclops by dancing, saltare Cyclopa, Hor. S. 1, 5, 63: a play of Afranius was r.'d, inducta est Afranii (fabula), Suet. Ner. 11: a play which is intended to be r.'d a second time, fabula quae vult reponi, Hor. A. P. 190: to r. persons as taking part in an imaginary dialogue, fictam orationem personis induere, Quint. 4, 1, 28.
II. To stand in the place of another: best expr. by phr.: the magistrate r.s the state, magistratus gerit personam civitatis, Cic. Off. 1, 34, 124: there is no one who r.s the deceased more directly, nulla est persona quae ad vicem (ejus) propius accedat, id. Leg. 2, 19, 48: under pretence of r.ing another person, per speciem alienae fungendae vicis, Liv. 1, 41: Aeneas, who will r. your name, Aeneas qui te nomine reddet, Virg. Aen. 6, 768.
III. To point out: prōpōno, pŏsui, pŏsĭtum, 3: to r. the wishes of the senate, p. voluntatem senatus, Caes. B. C. 1, 3: v.STATE , POINT OUT .
I. To pourtray:
1. repraesento, 1: to r. the images of absent objects to the mind, r. imagines rerum absentium animo, Quint. 6, 2, 29: to r. the virtue of Cato, r. virtutem Catonis, Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 14: Niceratus r.'d Alcibiades (in a play), Niceratus repraesentavit Alcibiadem, Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 88: stage players r. grief, artifices scenici repraesentant tristitiam, Sen. Ep. 11, 7.
2. ĭmĭtor, 1: to r. deep anguish by the pencil, summum luctum penicillo i., Cic. Or. 22, 74: to r. the misfortunes of heroes by oratory, heroum casus i. dicendo, id. de Or. 2, 47, 194: to r. poems by acting, i. carmina, Liv. 7, 2. Join: exprimere et i., Hor. A. P. 33.
3. exprĭmo, pressi, pressum, 3 (to delineate): to r. the figure of a man, e. hominis imaginem, Plin. 35, 12, 44: to r. this scene in verse, hanc speciem e. versibus, Cic. Div. 1, 36, 79: Quint.: v.
4. sĭmŭlo, 1 (mostly poet.): to r. a cypress, cupressum s., Hor. A. P. 20: with acc. and inf. in Ov. M. 6, 80.
5. fingo, finxi, fictum, 3 (to form, delineate): to r. a consummate orator, summum oratorem f., Cic. Or. 2, 7.
6. făcio, fēci, factum, 3: v.
7. expr. by verbs which denote the special art by which an object is r.'d: as, to r. (by painting), pingere; v.
II. To stand in the place of another: best expr. by phr.: the magistrate r.s the state, magistratus gerit personam civitatis, Cic. Off. 1, 34, 124: there is no one who r.s the deceased more directly, nulla est persona quae ad vicem (ejus) propius accedat, id. Leg. 2, 19, 48: under pretence of r.ing another person, per speciem alienae fungendae vicis, Liv. 1, 41: Aeneas, who will r. your name, Aeneas qui te nomine reddet, Virg. Aen. 6, 768.
III. To point out: prōpōno, pŏsui, pŏsĭtum, 3: to r. the wishes of the senate, p. voluntatem senatus, Caes. B. C. 1, 3: v.
μιμέομαι
to mimic, imitate, represent, portray
represent
κωμῳδέω
to represent in a comedy, to satirise, lampoon, libel
ἀνειδωλοποιέω
represent in imagery
ἀπεικονίζω
to represent in a statue
ἐκμορφόω
represent, express in form
to mimic, imitate, represent, portray
appearing fewer than 50 times
εἰδοφορέωrepresent
κωμῳδέω
to represent in a comedy, to satirise, lampoon, libel
ἀνειδωλοποιέω
represent in imagery
ἀπεικονίζω
to represent in a statue
ἐκμορφόω
represent, express in form