I.to fill up, make full or whole, to make good, to complete, supply (class.; cf.: reficio, suppedito).
I. In gen.: “fiscellam,” Cato, R. R. 88, 1: “dum suppleri summa queatur,” Lucr. 1, 1044: “bibliothecam,” Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 4, 5: “usum provinciae,” Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 5, § 9: “Hirtius, qui Gallici belli novissimum librum supplevit,” Suet. Caes. 56: “adjectoque cavae supplentur corpore rugae,” Ov. M. 7, 291: “vulnera supplevit lacrimis,” id. ib. 4, 140: tu mihi da cives et inania moenia (i. e. urbem) supple, fill up, i. e. people, id. ib. 7, 628; cf.: “si fetura gregem suppleverit,” Verg. E. 7, 36: “ad supplenda exercitūs damna,” Tac. A. 1, 71: “damna incendiorum multis,” to make good, repair, Suet. Calig. 16; cf. id. Aug. 41: “colos consumptas,” Sen. Herc. Oet. 1084: “aerarium,” Tac. A. 2, 38: “ut referendis praeteritis verbis id scriptum suppleatur,” Cic. de Or. 2, 26, 110: hypocauston. si dies nubilus, immisso vapore solis vicem supplet, supplies the place of, Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 24; so, “locum parentis tibi,” Sen. Hipp. 633: “remis Zephyros,” Stat. Achill. 2, 20: “ponite ante oculos M. Antonium consularem, sperantem consulatum Lucium adjungite: supplete ceteros, etc.,” Cic. Phil. 12, 6, 14: “praemia,” to furnish, Aus. Idyll. 10, 412: “suppletis lucernis,” i. e. with oil, Prop. 4 (5), 8, 43. “simili mixturā vas suppleatur,” Col. 12, 10, 2. — Absol.: “supplet iste nescio qui,” Cic. Fl. 17, 40.—
II. In partic., in milit. lang., to fill up, make complete or full in number, furnish with a complement, recruit: cum sex legionibus iisque suppletis ex Bruti exercitu, M. Anton. ap. Cic. Phil. 8, 9, 27: “legiones,” Liv. 29, 24, 14: “exercitum junioribus,” Just. 12, 11, 4: “legiones subito delectu,” Tac. H. 4, 19: “decurias equitum,” Suet. Tib. 41: “naves remigio,” Liv. 26, 39, 7; cf. “remigium,” Verg. A. 3, 471.
