To write in or vpon: to name: to intitle. In ipsis libris lua nomina inscribunt. Cic. They write their owne names in the titles of their bookes. In statua inscripsit, Parenti optimè merito. Ci. He mrate on the Image. Inscribere in fronte. Cic. Inscribere in animo orationem aliquam. Cicer. To print in ones minde. Inscribere corpus. Plautus. Plin. To rent: to mangle: to make scarres and slgues of woundes. Corpus tuum vulneribus, inscribam. Plaut. I wil painte thy body with scarres and wormdes. Sua corpora inscribunt. Plin. They set certaine prints vpon their bodies. Monumento suo iatronicen se inscripsie. Plin. Hee caused to be graned on his tomberthat he was a Phisitiõ: or In the Epitaph of his toome or graue, he intituled hiniselfe a phisition.

I. Lit.: aliquid in basi tropaeorum, Cic. Pis. 38, 92: in statua inscripsit, Parenti optime merito, id. Fam. 12, 3, 1: nomen suum monumentis, id. Har. Resp. 27: ea inscribam brevi, quae, etc., id. Att. 4, 1, 4: sit inscriptum in fronte unius cujusque civis, quid de re publica sentiat, id. Cat. 1, 13, 32: orationes in animo, id. de Or. 2, 87, 355: ut, si quae essent incisae aut inscriptae litterae, tollerentur, id. Dom. 53, 137: senarioli in ejus monumento inscripti, id. Tusc. 5, 23, 64: in illis libellis, id. Arch. 11, 26 B. and K. (Klotz omits in): Pan ... vix ulla inscribens terrae vestigia cornu, Sil. 13, 328. —Pass. with Gr. acc.: inscripti nomina regum flores, Verg. E. 3, 106.—

B. Transf., to furnish with an inscription: statuae, quas tu inscribi jussisti, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 69, 167: aedes, to write on a house that it is for sale: aedes venales hasce inscribit litteris, Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 131; cf.: aedes mercede, Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 92: librum, to inscribe, give a title to a book: eos (libellos) rhetoricos inscribunt, Cic. de Or. 3, 31, 122: in eo libro, qui Oeconomicus inscribitur, is entitled, id. Off. 2, 24, 87: inscripta lintea, i. e. curtains used as signs, Juv. 8, 168. — Hence, subst.: inscriptum, i, n., an inscription, title: alia inscripta nimis lepida, Gell. praef. 3. —

II. Trop.

A. In g e n.: vitiis suis sapientiam inscribit, gives to his vices the name of wisdom, Sen. Vit. Beat. 12. —

B. In partic.

1. To ascribe, assign, attribute: Epicurus, quia tantummodo induit personam philosophi, et sibi ipse hoc nomen inscripsit, has assigned, appropriated to himself, Cic. Tusc. 5, 26, 73: deos sceleri, to ascribe crimes to the gods, Ov. M. 15, 128: mea dextera leto Inscribenda tuo est, thy death is to be ascribed to my hand, id. ib. 10, 199.—

2. To make known, mark, as if by an inscription: sua quemque deorum inscribit facies, Ov. M. 6, 74: versā pulvis inscribitur hastā, Verg. A. 1, 478; cf.: sua quemque deorum Inscribit facies, makes known, characterizes, Ov. M. 6, 74.—

3. To brand, place a brand upon: vultus. Plin. 18, 3, 4, 21: naufrago stigmata, Sen. Ben. 4, 37, 3: inscripta ergastula, Juv. 14, 24.—

4. To subscribe an accusation (post-class.), Cod. 9, 35, 11.—

5. To write something over an old writing, so that the latter is no longer legible (post-class.): de his, quae in testamento delentur, inducuntur, inscribuntur, Dig. 28, 4.