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. —