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Latin Phrase-Book

Note 1 — VI. The Mind; its Functions

H. W. (Henry William) Auden translation

adumbrare is a technical term of painting = to make a sketch, outline of an object; then metaphorically, to merely hint at a thing. Its opposite is exprimere, technical term of sculpture, =figuratively, to represent exactly, clearly. It never has the simple meaning "to express."

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