English for "frontem explicare"?

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Salvete,

I try to put together an English/Latin phrase book for low-level expressions concerning the body and its interaction with the world (that is literal meanings). To frown can be translated by frontem contrahere/astringere.

But how should one translate frontem explicare (the reverse of the above) into English? Any idea?

Valete,

Carolus Raeticus

2

John Conington, in 1882, translated sollicitam explicuere frontem (Hor. C. 3, 29, 16) with Has smooth’d the rugged brow of care.

3

Thank you, I will go with “smooth one’s brow” (“of care” implies too much context).

Vale,

Carolus Raeticus