verb transitive

suf-fulcĭo

2nd PP suf-fulcīre · 3rd PP suffulsi · 4th PP suffultum · conj. 4th

to prop underneath; to underprop; prop up

to prop underneath, to underprop, prop up, support (mostly ante- and post-class.; not in Cic.).

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Lit.: porticus paribus suffulta columnis, Lucr. 4, 427: maxillas et cervices pulvillis, App. M. 10, p. 248, 26: lectica Syris suffulta, i. e. borne, carried, Mart. 9, 3, 11.—Absol.: nisi suffulcis firmiter, Non potes subsistere, Plaut. Ep. 1, 1, 77: vestis imum tegat suffulta latus, lying on it, Sen. Troad. 105.—

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Trop.: propterea capitur cibus, ut suffulciat artus, Lucr. 4, 868; so, artus, id. 4, 951. (In Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 54, the correct read. is suffigit; v. Ritschl ad h. l.)

Perseus ID: n46463 Key: suffulcio