resupino

rĕ-sŭpīno, no perf., ātum, 1, v. a., to bend or turn back (rare; not in Cic.).

I.

Lit.:

puer ad me accurrit, Pone apprehendit pallio, resupinat,

Ter. Phorm. 5, 6, 23:

assurgentem ibi regem umbone resupinat,

Liv. 4, 19:

hominem,

Cels. 7, 16:

nares planā manu,

to bend back, Quint. 11, 3, 80:

colla (turtures, cum bibunt),

Plin. 10, 34, 52, § 105; cf.:

caput (aves bibentes),

id. 10, 46, 63, § 129:

valvas,

to beat in, break down, Prop. 4 (5), 8, 51: resupinati cessantia tympana Galli, i. e. prostrate from drunkenness, Juv. 8, 176 et saep.— In mal. part., to stretch out:

aviam amici,

Juv. 3, 112.— Pass. in mid. force:

leones resupinari,

Plin. 24, 17, 102, § 162.—

II.

Trop.: rem, to overthrow, ruin, destroy, Att. ap. Non. 165, 3:

quid tantopere te resupinet?

makes proud, puffs up, Sen. Ben. 2, 13, 1.