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sustollo , ĕre,
I.v.a. [subs for sub (v. sub, III.), and tollo], to lift or take up, to raise up, raise (ante- and post-class.; cf.: erigo, effero).
I. In gen.: “amiculum,” Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 117; id. Poen. 1, 2, 136: “Graecae sunt hae columnae, sustolli solent,” i. e. to be set upon a high pedestal, id. ib. 5, 3, 49: “torvos ad aethera vultus,” Ov. M. 13, 542: “(navem) levi sustollit machina nisu,” Lucr. 4, 906: “vela,” Cat. 64, 210; 64, 235: “papulas alte,” Ser. Samm. 38, 716. —
II. In partic. *
A. To build, erect: novum opus in quālibet civitate, Cod. Th. 15, 1, 28. —
B. To take away, remove, destroy: “erilem filiam,” Plaut. Cist. 2, 3, 8: “has aedes totas,” id. Mil. 2, 3, 39: “sustolli ab his locis,” Arn. 2, 60.
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 (6):
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 13.542
    • Plautus, Cistellaria, 1.1
    • Plautus, Poenulus, 1.2
    • Plautus, Cistellaria, 2.3
    • Plautus, Miles Gloriosus, 2.3
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 4.906
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