stabilio

stăbĭlĭo, īvi, ītum (sync. imperf. stabilibat, Enn. Ann. 44), 4, v. a. [stabilis], to make firm, steadfast, or stable; to fix, stay, establish (class.; esp. in the trop. sense).

I.

Lit.: semita nulla pedem stabilibat, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 40 (Ann. v. 44 Vahl.):

eo stabilita magis sunt,

Lucr. 3, 202; cf.: confirmandi et stabiliendi causā singuli ab infimo solo pedes terrā exculcabantur, * Caes. B. G. 7, 73:

vineas,

Col. 4, 33, 1:

loligini pedes duo, quibus se velut ancoris stabiliunt,

Plin. 9, 28, 44, § 83.—

II.

Trop.: regni stabilita scamna solumque, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 48 fin. (Ann. v. 99 Vahl.):

alicui regnum suom,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 39; cf.: libertatem civibus, Att. ap. Cic. Sest. 58, 123:

rem publicam (opp. evertere),

Cic. Fin. 4, 24, 65; so,

rem publicam,

id. Sest. 68, 143:

leges,

id. Leg. 1, 23, 62:

nisi haec urbs stabilita tuis consiliis erit,

id. Marcell. 9, 29:

matrimonia firmiter,

id. Rep. 6, 2, 2: pacem, concordiam, Pseud.-Sall. Rep. Ordin. 1 fin. (p. 267 Gerl.):

res Capuae stabilitas Romana disciplina,

Liv. 9, 20:

nomen equestre in consulatu (Cicero),

Plin. 33, 2, 8, § 34:

(aegrum) ad retinendam patientiam,

to strengthen, fortify him, Gell. 12, 5, 3.