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sub-do , dĭdi, dĭtum, 3, v. a.
I. To put, place, set, or lay under (syn.: suppono, sterno).
A. Lit. (class.).
1. In gen.: ego puerum interead ancillae subdam lactantem meae, Liv. Andron. ap. Non. p. 153, 26 (Trag. Rel. v. 26 Rib.): “ignem subdito,Cato, R. R. 105, 1; so, “ignem,id. ib. 38, 4; Cic. N. D. 2, 10, 27; Liv. 8, 30 al.: “faces,Lucr. 6, 1285: “lapidem magnetem,id. 6, 1046: “manum oculo uni,id. 4, 447; cf.: “rem oculorum visu,id. 5, 101: “furcas vitibus,Plin. 14, 2, 4, § 32: “pugionem pulvino,Suet. Oth. 11; id. Dom. 17: “calcaria equo,Liv. 2, 20; 4, 19; 22, 6; cf.: “risus stimulos animo subdidit,id. 6, 34, 7: “id genus animalium (tauros) aratro,Tac. A. 12, 24: “se aquis,to plunge under, Ov. M. 4, 722: “colla vinclis,Tib. 1, 2, 90 et saep.: “versus,to append, add, Gell. 18, 4, 11; 19, 11, 3; cf.: “hic tu paulisper haesisti, deinde ilico subdidisti: quid de duobus consulibus, etc.,subjoined, Aus. Grat. Act. 23.—Esp., of places, in part. perf.: Celaletae (populi) majores Haemo, Minores Rhodopae subditi, that dwell at the foot of Mount Hœmus, etc., Plin. 4, 11, 18, § 41; cf.: “Libye subdita Cancro,lying under, Sil. 1, 194.—
2. In partic., to bring under, subject, subdue, = subicere (very rare): “Plutonis subdita regno Magna deum proles,Tib. 4, 1, 67: “tot subdite rebus!Pers. 5, 124: “subdidit Oceanum sceptris,Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 42: Hispanum Oceanum legibus, id. III. Cons. Stil. praef. 8: “rem tam magnam iisdem tempestatibus, iisdem casibus subdere,to expose, Plin. Ep. 3, 19, 4: “imperio feminae,Tac. A. 12, 40.—Part.: subdĭ-tus , a, um, subject (late Lat.): “subditas viris,Vulg. Tit. 2, 5: “tibi,id. Jud. 3, 2: “justum est, subditum esse Deo,id. 2 Macc. 9, 12: “subditi estote in omni timore,id. 1 Pet. 2, 18.—
B. Trop., to bring on, furnish, supply; to yield, afford (so not in Cic.): “iraï fax subdita,Lucr. 3, 303: “id nobis acriores ad studia dicendi faces subdidisse,Quint. 1, 2, 25: “irritatis militum animis subdere ignem,Liv. 8, 32: “ingenio stimulos,Ov. Tr. 5, 1, 76; Liv. 6, 34: “alicui spiritus,id. 7, 40.—
II. To put in the place of another person or thing, to substitute (rare but class.).
A. In gen.: te rogo, in Hirtii locum me subdas, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 21, 7: “quos in eorum locum subditos domi suae reservavit?Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 5, § 12: “judicem in meum locum,id. Dom. 32, 85; Plin. Pan. 25, 3; cf. Quint. 3, 6, 54: “immutavit et subdidit verbum ei verbo, quod omiserat, finitimum,Gell. 1, 4, 8.—
B. In partic., to put something spurious in the place of another person or thing; to substitute falsely; to forge, counterfeit, make up (not in Cic.; “syn. substituo): subditum se suspicatur,that he is a spurious child, a changeling, Ter. Heaut. 5, 3, 12: “me subditum et pellice genitum appellant,Liv. 40, 9: “partum,Dig. 4, 10, 19; cf.: “liberos tamquam subditos summovere familia,Quint. 1, 4, 3 Zumpt N. cr. (al. subditicios): “abolendo rumori Nero subdidit reos,Tac. A. 15, 44: “reum,id. ib. 1, 6; cf.: “subditis, qui accusatorum nomina sustinerent,suborned, id. ib. 4, 59: “testamentum,id. ib. 14, 40: “crimina majestatis,id. ib. 3, 67: “rumorem,id. ib. 6, 36 et saep.
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    • New Testament, Titus, 2.5
    • Cicero, Against Verres, 2.1.12
    • Cicero, On his House, 32.85
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 4.722
    • Old Testament, 2 Maccabees, 9.12
    • Suetonius, Domitianus, 17
    • Tacitus, Annales, 12.40
    • Tacitus, Annales, 15.44
    • Tacitus, Annales, 12.24
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 3.303
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 6.1046
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 4.447
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 5.101
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 6.1285
    • Suetonius, Otho, 11
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 14.32
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 4.41
    • Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, 3.19.4
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 40, 9
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 8, 32
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 6, 34
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 7, 40
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 4, 19
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 8, 30
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 2, 20
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 6, 34.7
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 22, 6
    • Cicero, de Natura Deorum, 2.10
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 1, 2.25
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 3, 6.54
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 1, 4.3
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 18.4.11
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    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 1.4.8
    • Ovid, Tristia, 5.1
    • Persius, Saturae, 5
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