pigmentum (noun N) : pingo
* A materialfor coloring, a color, paint, pigment.
* Lit.
* For painting, a paint: aspersa temere pigmenta in tabulā, oris lineamenta efficere possunt,Cic. Div. 1, 13, 23: vela in cortinam pigmenti ferventis mersa,Plin. 35, 11, 42, § 150.—Jocosely: quem Apelles Zeuxisque duo pingent pigmentis ulmeis,i. e. beat black and blue,Plaut. Ep. 5, 1, 20.
* Trop., of style, coloring, ornament: meus autem liber totum Isocratis μυροθήκιον atque omnes ejus discipulorum arculas et nonnihil etiam Aristotelia pigmenta consumpsit, Cic. Att. 2, 1, 1: pigmentorum flos et color,id. Brut. 87, 298: sententiae, tam verae, tam sine pigmentis fucoque puerili,id. de Or. 2, 45, 188.
* Transf., the juice of plants (post-class.), Firm. Math. 8, 17; v. Cael. Aur. Acut. 2, 9, 46.

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