subjaceo

sub-jăcĕo, cŭi, 2, v. n., to lie under or near any thing (post-Aug.).

I.

Lit.:

feles coeunt mare stante, feminā subjacente,

Plin. 10, 63, 83, § 174:

frumentum si tegulis subjaceat,

id. 18, 30, 73, § 301:

fenestris subjacet vestibulum villae,

Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 15; cf.:

subjacentes petrae,

Curt. 5, 3, 18:

campus aedificio subjacet,

adjoins, lies close to the building, Col. 1, 2, 3; so,

monti,

Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 2:

fenestra subjacens,

id. ib. 2, 17, 6.—

II.

Trop., to be under, subject to any thing; to belong to or be connected with, etc.:

causa, cui plurimae subjacent lites,

Quint. 3, 6, 27; cf. id. 3, 6, 41:

subjacet utilitati etiam illa defensio,

id. 7, 4, 12:

quantitas plerumque eidem (qualitati) subjacet,

id. 7, 4, 41:

quaestiones velut subjacentes,

id. 3, 6, 91 et saep.:

vita, quae multis casibus subjacet,

App. M. 11, p. 266, 10:

inopes divitum impotentiae subjacentes,

id. Dogm. Plat. 2, p. 28, 31:

viliores personae capitali supplicio subjaceant,

Cod. Just. 4, 40, 4:

delicto,

Vulg. Lev. 5, 3:

ditioni regis,

id. Esth. 9, 16:

ex materiā subjacente (deo) ac paratā,

within his power, Lact. 2, 8.