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sup-pĕto (subp- ), īvi or ĭi, ītum, 3, v. n.
I. To go or come to one, i. e.,
A. Lit., to be at hand or in store, to be present (class.): “ut mihi supersit, suppetat, superstitet,” Plaut. Pers. 3, 1, 3: “si cui haec suppetunt,” Cic. Off 2, 8, 31: “cui res non suppetat,” id. de Or. 3, 35, 142: “vererer, ne mihi crimina non suppeterent,” Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 11, § 31: “ne pabuli quidem satis magna copia suppetebat,” Caes. B. G. 1, 16: “copia frumenti,” id. ib. 1, 3: “frumentum copiaeque,” Liv. 5, 26, 9: “quibus rebus numquam tanta suppeteret victoriae fiducia, Auct. B. Afr. 31: ut mihi ad remunerandum nihil suppetat praeter voluntatem,” Cic. Fam. 15, 13, 2: “quibuscumque vires suppetebant ad arma ferenda, praesto fuere,” Liv. 4, 22, 1; Plin. 2, 9, 6, § 46: “neque quo manus porrigeret suppetebat,” Nep. Dion, 7, 2: “nondum suppetente ad haurien, dum ultra justa vi,” Plin. 2, 9, 6, § 46: “si vita suppetet,” Cic. Fin. 1, 4, 11; so, “vita,” Plin. Ep. 5, 5, 8: “vita longior,” Liv. 40, 56, 7: quoad vita suppetet, Auct. B. Afr. 92; Vop. Aur. 24.—With pers. subject: “deos oro, ut vitae tuae superstes suppetat (uxor),” that she may survive you, Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 19: “nec consilium sibi suppetere diceret,” Liv. 4, 48, 13.—
B. Transf., to be equal to or sufficient for; to suffice, to agree with, correspond to any thing; “= sufficere: ut amori, ut ambitioni, ut cottidianis sumptibus copiae suppetant,” Cic. Tusc. 5, 32, 89: “pauper enim non est, cui rerum suppetit usus,” Hor. Ep. 1, 12, 4: “utinam quae dicis, dictis facta suppetant,” i. e. I wish you may be as good as your word, Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 106: “rudis lingua non suppetebat libertati,” Liv. 2, 56, 8: “ut plagae possint suppetere ipsae,” Lucr. 1, 1050. — Poet., with pers. subject: “novis ut usque suppetas doloribus,” you may be exposed to, Hor. Epod. 17, 64. —
II. To ask in place of another, to personate another in asking: “si silignario quis dixerit, ut quisquis nomine ejus siliginem petisset, ei daret ... furti actionem adversus eum qui suppetet, etc.,” Dig. 47, 2, 52, § 11.
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 (18):
    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 15.13.2
    • Caesar, Gallic War, 1.16
    • Cicero, Against Verres, 2.1.31
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 4, 22.1
    • Plautus, Persa, 3.1
    • Plautus, Pseudolus, 1.1
    • Plautus, Trinummus, 1.2
    • Cicero, On Oratory, 3.35
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 1.1050
    • Cornelius Nepos, Dion, 7.2
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 2.46
    • Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, 5.5.8
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 5, 26.9
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 4, 48.13
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 40, 56.7
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 2, 56.8
    • Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, 1.4
    • Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, 5.32
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