I.on high, upwards (mostly anteclass.): “facite illic homo jam in medicinam ablatus sublimen siet,” Plaut. Men. 5, 7, 3 Ritschl: “jam sublimen raptum oportuit,” id. ib. 5, 7, 6 ib.: “sublimen ferre,” id. ib. 5, 7, 13 ib.; 5, 8, 3 ib. (in all these passages Brix reads sublimis, sublimem); cf.: “illum jubes ancillas rapere sublimen domum,” id. As. 5, 2, 18 (Fleck. sublimem; cf. “Ussing ad loc.): sublimen intro hunc rape,” Ter. And. 5, 2, 20 Fleck. (Umpfenb. sublimem): “sublimen medium arriperem,” id. Ad. 3, 2, 18 ib.: aspice hoc sublimen candens, Enn. ap. Cic. N. D. 2, 2, 4; 2, 25, 65; 3, 4, 10; 3, 16, 40 B. and K. (al. sublime); cf. Liv. 1, 16, 2 Weissenb. ad loc.; “and Rib. writes sublimen (for sublimis, etc.),” Verg. G. 1, 242; 1, 404; id. A. 1, 259; 10, 144; 11, 67; 11, 722.—(For a full discussion of these passages and the word, v. Ritschl, Opusc. 2, p. 462 sqq.; Rib. in Fleck. Jahrb. 77, p. 184 sqq.; and contra, R. Klotz ad Ter. And. p. 197 sqq.)
sub-līmen , adv. acc. to Ritschl, Opusc. 2, p. 464, = sublimen superum, referring to the hanging up of slaves for punishment; but acc. to Ussing ad Plaut. As. v. 859 from sublimis,