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-sŭpīnus , a, um, adj.,
I.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 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.
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    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 12.138
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 4.121
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 13.86
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 15.520
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 1.730
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 1.476
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 2.267
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 6.275
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 1.37
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 21.23
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 8.93
    • Cicero, De Divinatione, 1.22
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 5, 12.20
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 11, 3.167
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 10, 3.15
    • Seneca, Epistulae, 80.7
    • Statius, Thebias, 4
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