sculpo
Σκηνὴ πᾶς ὁ βίος καὶ παίγνιον: ἢ μάθε παίζειν, τὴν σπουδὴν μεταθείς, ἢ φέρε τὰς ὀδύνας → All life is a stage and a play: either learn to play laying your gravity aside, or bear with life's pains.
Latin > English
sculpo sculpere, sculpsi, sculptus V TRANS :: carve, engrave (inscription/face); fashion/work into form by carving/engraving
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
sculpo: psi, ptum, 3, v. a. cf. γλύφω,> to hollow out, grave; also scalpo, γλάφω,
I to carve, cut, grave, chisel in stone, brass, wood, etc.; to form, fashion, or produce by carving, graving, etc. (very rare but class.; in the MSS. very freq. interchanged with scalpere).
I Lit.: non est e saxo sculptus aut e robore dolatus, * Cic. Ac. 2, 31, 100: niveum mirā arte Sculpsit ebur, Ov. M. 10, 248: quid sculptum infabre, quid fusum durius esset, Hor. S. 2, 3, 22: denticulos in coronis, Vitr. 1, 2; Luc. 3, 224: in gemmā ancoram, Just. 15, 4, 4.—
II Trop.
(a) Dicet scripta et, ut Demosthenes ait, si continget, et sculpta, i. e. things wrought out, elaborated, Quint. 12, 9, 16.—
(b) In animo ejus sculptum, App. Dogm. Plat. 2, p. 23, 11.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
sculpō,¹⁴ psī, ptum, ĕre (cf. scalpo ), tr., sculpter : Cic. Ac. 2, 100 ; Vitr. Arch. 1, 2 ; sculpere ebur Ov. M. 10, 248, travailler l’ivoire || [fig.] graver [dans l’esprit] : Apul. Plat. 2, 20.
Latin > German (Georges)
sculpo, sculpsī, sculptum, ere (verwandt m. scalpo), durch Graben, Stechen od. Schneiden etwas bilden, schnitzen, meißeln, aus od. in Stein, Elfenbein, Holz usw. (s. das Nähere unter scalpo no. II), I) eig.: ebur, eine Statue aus Elfenbein, Ov.: marmora, Plin.: e saxo sculptus, aus Stein gebildet, Cic.: scyphos, Plin.: denticulos in coronis, Vitr.: gemmas faberrime, Kameen schneiden, Apul.: ancoram in gemma, Iustin.: imago sculpta, Suet.: funditur, tunditur, sculpitur Iuppiter, Augustin. epist. 91, 5. – II) bildl., tief einprägen, quā quidem naturae lege in animo eius sculptum sit, Apul. de Plat. 2, 20.
