pingebat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →pingo, pingere, pinxi, pictus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
paint, tint, color; adorn/decorate w/colored designs; paint/draw/depict/portray;; decorate/embellish; depict in embroidery; [acu ~ => embroidery, needle-work];
sg. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Metamorphoses VI
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...tractu, sive levi teretem versabat pollice fusum, seu pingebat acu; scires a Pallade doctam. quod tamen ipsa negat..."Ars Amatoria II
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Ars Amatoria
"...captis nocte revectus equis.' Pluraque pingebat, subitus cum Pergama fluctus Abstulit et Rhesi cum duce castra..."