retouch
retouch
v. trans.
Remodel: Ar. and P. ἀ̆ναπλάσσειν.
v. trans.
Remodel: Ar. and P. ἀ̆ναπλάσσειν.
RETOUCH
retractare aliquid (Cic. with the accessory notion of improving it): emendare (to amend): recudere (carmen Muret.): refingere (orationem Wolf.): in several places crebris locis inculcare et reficere (Cic.). To retouch a picture picturam jam evanescentem vetustate coloribus iisdem quibus fuerat renovare (to freshen an old painting): nova pictura interpolare opus (to put on fresh colors here and there).
retractare aliquid (Cic. with the accessory notion of improving it): emendare (to amend): recudere (carmen Muret.): refingere (orationem Wolf.): in several places crebris locis inculcare et reficere (Cic.). To retouch a picture picturam jam evanescentem vetustate coloribus iisdem quibus fuerat renovare (to freshen an old painting): nova pictura interpolare opus (to put on fresh colors here and there).
retouch:
1. rĕtracto, 1 (to take in hand again): to r. the props, r. pedamenta, Col. 4, 26, 1. Fig.: to r. his poems, carmina r., Suet. Gram. 2: Cic.: v.REVISE , IMPROVE .
2. interpŏlo, 1 (to furbish, vamp up): to r. a picture, nova pictura i. opus, Pl. Most. 1, 3, 105 (com. of a woman painting herself): so, interpolatio (the act of r.ing). Plin. 13, 12, 23. Phr.: to r. a fresco, parietes pictos reficere, id. 35, 11, 40, ad init.: I have sent the composition to you in a more revised form, and indeed the original copy, r.'d and rewritten in many places, (σύνταγμα ad te misi retractatius, et quidem ἀρχέτυπον crebris locis inculcatum et refectum, Cic. Att. 16, 3, ad init.: to r a work, alia interscribere, alia rescribere, Plin. Ep. 7, 9 (q. v.).
1. rĕtracto, 1 (to take in hand again): to r. the props, r. pedamenta, Col. 4, 26, 1. Fig.: to r. his poems, carmina r., Suet. Gram. 2: Cic.: v.
2. interpŏlo, 1 (to furbish, vamp up): to r. a picture, nova pictura i. opus, Pl. Most. 1, 3, 105 (com. of a woman painting herself): so, interpolatio (the act of r.ing). Plin. 13, 12, 23. Phr.: to r. a fresco, parietes pictos reficere, id. 35, 11, 40, ad init.: I have sent the composition to you in a more revised form, and indeed the original copy, r.'d and rewritten in many places, (σύνταγμα ad te misi retractatius, et quidem ἀρχέτυπον crebris locis inculcatum et refectum, Cic. Att. 16, 3, ad init.: to r a work, alia interscribere, alia rescribere, Plin. Ep. 7, 9 (q. v.).