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aut acuentes eum quasi incedentes aut cum colore viridi miscentes...

English translation: either sharpening it, as if attacking it, or mixing it with green color

18:30 Aug 3, 2006
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Latin term or phrase: aut acuentes eum quasi incedentes aut cum colore viridi miscentes...
...aut nigro infuscantes aut virenti sensim albo illuminantes.

I know it's long, but it's a quotation. It's from chapter 26 of the "Noctes Acticae" by Aulus Gellius. It has been inserted into a sentence in the book I'm translating and I want to know what it means.
JoGunn
Local time: 19:00
English translation:either sharpening it, as if attacking it, or mixing it with green color
Explanation:
or darkening it with black or lightening it little by little with greenish white.

Aulus Gellius, Noctes ATTICAE 2.26.8.
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William Short
Italy
Local time: 21:00
Grading comment
Thank you. I could never have decoded this with a dictionary.
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4 +3either sharpening it, as if attacking it, or mixing it with green color
William Short


  

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either sharpening it, as if attacking it, or mixing it with green color


Explanation:
or darkening it with black or lightening it little by little with greenish white.

Aulus Gellius, Noctes ATTICAE 2.26.8.

William Short
Italy
Local time: 21:00
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PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thank you. I could never have decoded this with a dictionary.

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agree  Rebecca Garber
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agree  Alfa Trans (X)
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agree  Joseph Brazauskas: Valde compta translatio, Gulielme, haec tua est. Tibi in hoc gratulor, namque certo rem habes.
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