I.to besmear or anoint beneath, to lay on as a groundcolor, to prime with any thing (ante-class. and post-Aug.).
I. Lit.: “chrysocollam atramento,” Plin. 33, 5, 27, § 90: “caeruleum,” id. 35, 6, 26, § 45: “argentum vivum,” id. 33, 6, 32, § 100: “sanguinem lacertae,” id. 30, 9, 23, § 80.—
II. Transf.
A. To put underneath, underlay (syn. substerno): “maceriam calce,” Cato, R. R. 15, 1: “tertium (genus sardonychis) argenteis bracteis sublinitur, etc.,” Plin. 37, 7, 31, § 105.—
B. Sublinere os alicui, to befool, cheat, bamboozle (the allusion being to the practice of smearing the face of a sleeping person; cf. Non. 45, 21) (Plautinian): “pulchre os sublevit patri,” Plaut. Merc. 3, 4, 19; id. Mil. 2, 1, 32; 2, 1, 75; 2, 5, 57; id. Aul. 4, 6, 2; id. Capt. 3, 4, 123; id. Merc. 2, 4, 17; 3, 4, 46; id. Ps. 2, 4, 29; id. Trin. 2, 4, 157; id. Ep. 3, 3, 48; 3, 4, 55.
