resupinus

rĕ-sŭpīnus, a, um, adj., bent back or backwards, lying on one ' s back or with the face upwards, supine (not in Cic.).

I.

Lit.: resupinum in caelo contueri, i. e. lying on [p. 1585] one ' s back, face upwards, supine, Att. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 22, 44:

fertur equis curruque haeret resupinus inani,

Verg. A. 1, 476:

eque tuo pendet resupino spiritus ore,

Lucr. 1, 37; Ov. H. 16, 255; id. M. 2, 267:

jacuit resupinus humi,

id. ib. 4, 121;

12, 324: hunc ego resupinum fudi,

id. ib. 13, 86 al.:

retro lentas tendo resupinus habenas,

bent back, id. ib. 15, 520:

collum,

id. ib. 1, 730:

pectus,

id. ib. 12, 138:

caput,

Plin. 8, 25, 38, § 93 et saep. — Of an arrogant gait or manner: (Niobe) mediam tulerat gressus resupina per urbem, with head thrown back, i. e. proudly, Ov. M. 6, 275; cf. Sen. Ep. 80, 7;

Cod. Th. 9, 3, 6: si non resupini spectantesque tectum expectaverimus, quid obveniat,

Quint. 10, 3, 15:

spectat resupino sidera vultu,

Mart. 9, 44, 3.—

B.

Transf., of things turned or bent back:

Elis,

spread out on a hill, Stat. Th. 4, 237:

labra lilii,

Plin. 21, 5, 11, § 23:

vomer,

id. 18, 18, 48, § 171.—

II.

Trop., lazy, slothful, effeminate, careless, negligent:

voluptas,

Quint. 5, 12, 20; cf. id. 11, 3, 167:

qui solvit, numquam ita resupinus est, ut facile suas pecunias jactet,

Dig. 22, 3, 25:

existimatio,

ib. 43, 24, 4.