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supinusque

supinus, backwards, bent backwards, thrown backwards, on the back, supine

  1. …hunc super et Zetes, hunc super et Calais, oscula suspensis instabant carpere palmis, oscula et alterna ferre supina fuga. ille sub extrema pendens secluditur ala et volucres ramo summovet insidias. iam Pandioniae cessit genus Orithyiae a…

    Propertius, Elegies

  2. …oscines. nam si animal omne, ut vult, ita utitur motu sui corporis, prono, obliquo, supino, membraque, quocumque vult, flectit, contorquet, porrigit, contrahit eaque ante efficit paene, quam cogitat…

    M. Tullius Cicero, De Divinatione

  3. …effuse sequendo in locum iniquum pertractus opportunus huic eruptioni fuit ; uersus itaque in uictorem terror et nouo hoste et supina ualle Romanam inclinauit aciem. instant Uolsci recentes qui e castris impetum fecerant ; integrant et illi pugnam qui simulata…

    Livy, ab Urbe Condita

  4. …locant, rapit ipsa cadentem mater et arcanos iterat Cytherea liquores. tunc puer e turba, manibus qui forte supinis nobile gemmato speculum portaverat auro, hoc quoque demus, ait ; patriis nec gratius ullum munus erit templis ipsoque…

    Statius, P. Papinius, Silvae

  5. …cinere calefactum, ut inponatur calidum. experti adfirmavere plurimum referre, si virgo inponat nuda ieiuna ieiuno et manu supina tangens dicat negat apollo pestem posse crescere cui nuda virgo restinguat atque ita retrorsa manu ter dicat totiensque despuant ambo…

    Pliny the Elder, Natural History

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