expingo
κινδυνεύει μὲν γὰρ ἡμῶν οὐδέτερος οὐδὲν καλὸν κἀγαθὸν εἰδέναι, ἀλλ᾽ οὗτος μὲν οἴεταί τι εἰδέναι οὐκ εἰδώς, ἐγὼ δέ, ὥσπερ οὖν οὐκ οἶδα, οὐδὲ οἴομαι· ἔοικα γοῦν τούτου γε σμικρῷ τινι αὐτῷ τούτῳ σοφώτερος εἶναι, ὅτι ἃ μὴ οἶδα οὐδὲ οἴομαι εἰδέναι. → for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know.
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
ex-pingo: pinxi, pictum, 3, v. a.,
I to paint, depict; to paint, paint over.
I Lit.: quoniam et pericula expingimus, ne quis miretur et rogos pingi, Plin. 35, 7, 31, § 49: genas, to paint, rouge, Mart. 7, 83, 2: cutem, id. 8, 52, 8: se (Thamar), Tert. Cult. Fem. 12. —
II Trop., of speech, to picture, depict, describe to the life: qui motus hominum, qui ferarum non ita expictus est, ut quae ipse non viderit, nos ut videremus, effecerit? * Cic. Tusc. 5, 39, 114 (see the passage in connection).
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
expingō, pīnxī, pictum, ĕre, tr.,
1 peindre, représenter : Plin. 35, 49 || enluminer : expingere se Tert. Cult. 2, 12, se farder
2 dépeindre, décrire : Cic. Tusc. 5, 114.
