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.