pingō pinxī, pictus, ere, to paint, make by painting: tabulas: tabulas pictas mirari, paintings, S.

—To paint, represent, delineate, depict, portray: (comas) Dione Pingitur sustinuisse manu, is represented in a picture, O.: picta in tabulā Voluptas: aere dato qui pingitur, H.

— Prov.: qui numquam philosophum pictum viderunt, a philosopher's portrait.

—To embroider: textile stragulum, magnificis operibus pictum: picti tori, with embroidered coverlets, O.: Pictus acu chlamydem, V.

—To paint, stain, color: Sanguineis frontem moris, V.: oculos, Iu.: picti scuta, with painted shields, V.

—To adorn, decorate, embellish: bibliothecam mihi sittybis.

—Fig., of style, to paint, color, embellish: verba: Britanniam coloribus tuis, penicillo meo: (vir) omnibus a me pictus et politus artis coloribus.