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sub-sterno , strāvi, strātum, 3, v. a.,
I.to strew, scatter, spread, or lay under or beneath (class.; cf. subicio).
I. Lit.: “segetem ovibus,” Cato, R. R. 37, 2: “verbenas,” Ter. And. 4, 3, 12: “casias et nardi lenis aristas,” Ov. M. 15, 398; Plin. 20, 14, 56, § 158: “folia,” id. 20, 21, 84, § 226: “semina hordei,” Col. 5, 9, 9: “fucum marinum,” to spread underneath, lay as a ground - color, Plin. 26, 10, 66, § 103 (syn. sublino): se (mulier), to submit, in mal. part., Cat. 64, 403: “substratus Numida mortuo Romano,” stretched out under, lying under, Liv. 22, 51, 9: pelage late substrata, spread out or extended beneath, Lucr. 6, 619; 4, 411: “si forte lacus substratus Averni'st,” id. 6, 746; cf.: “natura insidians pontum substravit avaris,” Prop. 3 (4), 7, 37. “pullos,” i. e. to furnish them with a couch, Plin. 10, 33, 49, § 93.—Absol.: “male substravisse pecori,” Plin. 18, 23, 53, § 194.— Impers. pass.: “pecori diligenter substernatur,” Cato, R. R. 37, 2.—
B. Transf., to bestrew, spread over, cover any thing: “solum paleis,” Varr. R. R. 1, 57, 2: “gallinae nidos mollissime substernunt,” Cic. N. D. 2, 52, 129: “fundamenta carbonibus,” Plin. 36, 14, 21, § 95.—
II. Trop., to spread out, submit for examination, acceptance, etc.; to give up, surrender, prostitute: “omne concretum atque corporeum animo,” Cic. Univ. 8: “delicias,” Lucr. 2, 22; cf.: “pudicitiam alicui,” Suet. Aug. 68; Val. Max. 2, 7, 14.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (12):
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 15.398
    • Suetonius, Divus Augustus, 68
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 2.22
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 6.619
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 4.411
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 6.746
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 10.93
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 22, 51
    • Cicero, de Natura Deorum, 2.52
    • Columella, Res Rustica, 5.9.9
    • Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia, 2.7.14
    • Cicero, Timaeus, 8
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