subfulcio

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,

App. M. 10, p. 248, 26:

lectica Syris suffulta,

i. e. borne, carried, Mart. 9, 3, 11.— Absol.:

nisi suffulcis firmiter, Non potes subsistere,

Plaut. Ep. 1, 1, 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, the correct read. is suffigit; v. Ritschl ad h. l.)