(v. a.P. a.adv.) : ex-prĭmo, pressi, pressum, 3, v. a.premo
* To press or squeeze out, to force out (class.).
* Lit.: oleum ex malobathro,Plin. 12, 26, 59, § 129: sucum expresso semini,id. 20, 1, 2, § 3: sucum flore,id. 21, 19, 74, § 127: sucum radici,id. 27, 13, 109, § 136; cf.: vinum palmis, oleum sesamae (dat.), id. 6, 28, 32, § 161: oleum amygdalis,id. 13, 1, 2, § 8: sudorem de corpore,Lucr. 5, 487: lacrimulam oculos terendo,Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 23: si nubium conflictu ardor expressus se emiserit, id esse fulmen,Cic. Div. 2, 19, 44: liquorem per densa foramina (cribri),Ov. M. 12, 438; cf.: aquam in altum,Plin. 31, 3, 23, § 39: aquam in altitudinem,Vitr. 8, 7: quantum has (turres) quotidianus agger expresserat,had carried up, raised,Caes. B. G. 7, 22, 4 Oud.: pecuniam alicui,Suet. Oth. 5; id. Vesp. 4.
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* Trop.
* To form by pressure, to represent, form, model, portray, express (mostly poet. and in postAug. prose; freq. in the elder Pliny): (faber) et ungues exprimet et molles imitabitur aere capillos,Hor. A. P. 33; cf.: alicujus furorem ... verecundiae ruborem,Plin. 34, 14, 40, § 140: expressa in cera ex anulo imago,Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 54: imaginem hominis gypso e facie ipsa,Plin. 35, 12, 44, § 153; cf.: effigiem de signis,id. ib.: optime Herculem Delphis et Alexandrum, etc.,id. 34, 8, 19, § 66 et saep.: vestis stricta et singulos artus exprimens,exhibiting, showing,Tac. G. 17: pulcher aspectu sit athleta, cujus lacertos exercitatio expressit,has well developed, made muscular,Quint. 8, 3, 10.
* To squeeze or wring out, to extort, wrest, elicit: lex, quam ex natura ipsa arripuimus, hausimus, expressimus, qs. pressed out, Cic. Mil. 4, 10: utilitas expressit nomina rerum,has imposed,Lucr. 5, 1029: cf.: cum ab iis saepius quaereret, neque ullam omnino vocem exprimere posset,Caes. B. G. 1, 32, 3: expressa est Romanis necessitas obsides dandi,Liv. 2, 13, 4: confessionem concessi maris hosti,id. 37, 31, 5: confessionem cruciatu,Suet. Galb. 10: deditionem ultimā necessitate,Liv. 8, 2, 6: pecunia vi expressa et coacta,Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 69, § 165: tu si tuis blanditiis a Sicyoniis nummulorum aliquid expresseris,Cic. Att. 1, 19, 9: risum magis quam gemitum,Plin. Ep. 4, 7, 7 et saep.—With ut: expressi, ut conficere se tabulas negaret,have constrained,Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 47, § 112: expressit, ut polliceretur,Curt. 6, 7.
* Transf. (acc. to I. B. 2.), to imitate, copy, represent, to portray, describe, express, esp. in words (cf. reddo): cum magnitudine animi tum liberalitate vitam patris et consuetudinem expresserit,i. e. imitated,Cic. Rab. Post. 2, 4: lex expressa ad naturam,id. Leg. 2, 5, 13: vitia imitatione ex aliquo expressa,id. de Or. 3, 12, 47: rem ante oculos ponit, cum exprimit omnia perspicue, ut res prope dicam manu tentari possit,Auct. Her. 4, 40, 62; cf. id. ib. § 63: hanc speciem Pasiteles caelavit argento et noster expressit Archias versibus,Cic. Div. 1, 36, 79: mores alicujus oratione,id. de Or. 2, 43, 184: multas nobis imagines fortissimorum virorum expressas scriptores Graeci et Latini reliquerunt,id. Arch. 6, 14; cf. id. ib. 12, 30: in Platonis libris omnibus fere Socrates exprimitur,id. de Or. 3, 4, 15: Mithridaticum bellum magnum atque difficile totum ab hoc expressum est, depicted to the life, id. Arch. 9, 21; cf.: ut Euryalum exprimat infans,may resemble,Juv. 6, 81.—With rel.-clause as object: diligenter, quae vis subjecta sit vocibus,id. Fin. 2, 2, 6: exprimere non possum, quanto sim gaudio affectus,tell, express,Plin. Ep. 5, 15, 2; Vell. 2, 124, 1: verbis exprimere quid quis sentiat,Plin. Ep. 5, 16, 7: quod exprimere dicendo sensa possumus,Cic. de Or. 1, 8, 32: mores in scriptis exprimere,Suet. Vit. Ter. 4.—Of translating into another language, to render, translate: si modo id exprimere Latine potuero,Cic. Rep. 1, 43; cf. id. ib. 1, 44: κατάληψιν, verbum e verbo exprimentes comprehensionem dicemus, id. Ac. 2, 10, 31: nec tamen exprimi verbum e verbo necesse erit,id. Fin. 3, 4, 15; cf.: verbum de verbo expressum extulit,Ter. Ad. prol. 11: fabellae Latinae ad verbum de Graecis expressae,Cic. Fin. 1, 2, 4; Plin. Ep. 4, 18, 1.—Of words, to pronounce, utter: nolo exprimi litteras putidius nolo obscurari neglegentius,with affected distinctness,Cic. de Or. 3, 11, 41: verba,Quint. 1, 2, 6; 9, 4, 10; 40 al.—Rarely of a personal object: oratorem imitando effingere atque exprimere,Cic. de Or. 2, 22, 90: moderatorem rei publicae nostris libris diligenter expressimus,id. Att. 8, 11, 1.—Hence, expressus, a, um, P. a., clearly exhibited, prominent, distinct, visible, manifest, clear, plain, express (syn. solidus, opp. adumbratus).
* Lit.: species deorum, quae nihil concreti habeat, nihil solidi, nihil expressi, nihil eminentis,Cic. N. D. 1, 27, 75; cf.: litterae lituraeque omnes assimulatae, expressae,Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 77, § 189: corpora lacertis expressa,powerful, muscular,Quint. 8 praef. § 19:protinus omnibus membris, expressus infans,fully formed,id. 2, 4, 6.
* Trop.
* In gen.: habuit Catilina permulta maximarum non expressa signa, sed adumbrata virtutum,Cic. Cael. 5, 12; cf.: est gloria solida quaedam res et expressa, non adumbrata,id. Tusc. 3, 2, 3 (v. Madv. ad Cic. Fin. 5, 22, 62, p. 723 sq.): indicia solida et expressa,id. Planc. 12; cf.: veri juris germanaeque justitiae solida et expressa effigies,id. Off. 3, 17, 69: expressa sceleris vestigia,id. Rosc. Am. 22, 62: expressiora et illustriora,id. Fam. 1, 7, 9; cf. Plin. Ep. 5, 15, 3; and: quid expressius atque signatius in hanc causam?Tert. Res. Carn. 3.
* Expressa carmina Battiadae, translated, Cat. 65, 16.—Of distinct pronunciation: vitia oris emendet, ut expressa sint verba, ut suis quaeque litterae sonis enuntientur,Quint. 1, 11, 4: expressior sermo,id. 1, 1, 37: expressior loquacitas generi picarum est,Plin. 10, 42, 59, § 118. —In a bad sense, of a too emphatic, affected pronunciation: sonus erat dulcis: litterae neque expressae neque oppressae, ne aut obscurum esset aut putidum, Cic Off. 1, 37, 133.—Hence, adv.: expressē. *
* Lit., with pressure, strongly: artus expressius fricare,Scrib. Comp. 198.
* Trop., expressly, distinctly, clearly: conscripta exempla,Auct. Her. 4, 7, 10: quod ipsum expressius Hesiodus hoc versu significavit,Col. 11, 1, 29.—Of pronunciation, distinctly: ut ea (R littera) a nullo expressius efferretur,Val. Max. 8, 7, 1 ext.

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