Lewis Short
(verb) : dē-pingo, pinxi, pictum, 3 (
* Perf. syncop. depinxti, Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 154)
* To depict, portray, paint, draw, represent by painting (rare but class.).
* Lit.: tabellas obscenas,Prop. 2, 6, 27: pugnam Marathoniam,Nep. Milt. 6, 3: imaginem in tabula,Quint. 6, 1, 32; cf. Gell. 19, 10, 2: depinge, ubi sistam,Pers. 6, 79: idola in pariete,Vulg. Ezech 8, 10.
* To embroider: depictas gemmatasque indutus paenulas,Suet. Calig. 52: auro depicta chlamys,Val. Fl. 6, 226.
* Trop., by speech or in thought, to portray, represent, sketch, describe, imagine, conceive: formam verbis,Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 154; cf. Quint. 8, 3, 63: in illa (sc. republica), quam sibi Socrates Peripatetico illo in sermone depinxerit,Cic. Rep. 2, 29: vitam hujusce,Cic. Rosc. Am. 27, 74: minuta quaedam nimiumque depicta,too elaborately defined,id. Or. 12, 39: quidvis cogitatione,i. e. to imagine,id. N. D. 1, 15, 39; cf. id. Ac. 2, 15, 48.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary