I. To carry under, to put or lay under (very rare; “syn. subicio): corium,” Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 33: tergum, id. Fragm. ap. Non. 397, 1.—
II. In gen.
A. To offer, proffer: “neque mater potest sufferre lac,” Varr. R. R. 2, 4, 19.—T. t. in jurid. Lat.: “litis aestimationem,” to tender, Dig. 30, 1, 69 fin.; 21, 2, 21.—
B. To hold up, bear, support, sustain (very rare; “syn. sustineo): an axis eum (mundum) sustineat an ipse se potius vi propriā sufferat,” Arn. 2, 83: “comitiali morbo vexatus, ut stare, colligere semet ac sufferre vix posset,” hold himself upright, Suet. Calig. 50.—
2. Trop., to take upon one's self, undergo, bear, endure, suffer an evil or grievance (class.; “syn.: patior, tolero): plagas,” Plaut. As. 3, 2, 11: “vulnera,” Lucr. 5, 1304: poenas, Att. ap. Non. 396, 33: “poenam sui sceleris,” Cic. Cat. 2, 13, 28: “at Apollodorus poenas sustulit,” id. N. D. 3, 33, 82: “imperii poenas sufferre,” id. Font. 21, 49: “quam multam si sufferre voluissent,” id. Caecin. 33, 98; cf.: “pro alicujus peccatis supplicium sufferre,” Ter. And. 5, 3, 17; in Plautus (like dare poenas alicui) with dat.: “deinde illi actutum sufferet suos servos poenas Sosia,” Plaut. Am. 3, 4, 19: “ut vobis victi Poeni poenas sufferant,” id. Cist. 1, 3, 54: “sumptus,” Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 44: “laborem, solem, sitim,” Plaut. Merc. 5, 2, 20: “labores,” Varr. R. R. 2, 8, 5: “(vites) valenter sufferunt ventos et imbres,” Col. 3, 2, 15: “nisi hoc pejus sit, haec sufferre et perpeti,” Sulp. in Cic. Fam. 4, 5, 3: “nec claustra nec ipsi Custodes sufferre valent,” Verg. A. 2, 492: “quod (iter) superest, sufferte pedes,” Prop. 3 (4), 21, 21.et saep.—Absol.: “Syre, vix suffero,” Ter. Heaut. 2, 4, 20.—Ellipt.: “si magis me instabunt, ad praetorem sufferam (sc. me rapi),” Plaut. Curc. 3, 6.
