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suffulcio

suf-fulcĭo (subf-), fulsi, fultum, 4, v. a., to prop underneath, to underprop, prop up, support (mostly ante- and post-class.; not in Cic.).
  • I Lit.: porticus paribus suffulta columnis, Lucr. 4, 427: maxillas et cervices pulvillis, Ap. Met. 10, 20, 10; lectica Syris suffulta, i.e. borne, carried, Mart. 9, 3, 11.—Absol.: nisi suffulcis firmiter, Non potes subsistere, Plaut. Ep. 1, 1, 77 (77): vestis imum tegat suffulta latus, lying on it, Sen. Troad. 105.—
  • II Trop.: propterea capitur cibus, ut suffulciat artus, Lucr. 4, 868; so, artus, id. 4, 951. (In Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 54 (209), the correct read. is suffigit; v. Ritschl ad h. l.)

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