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sustĭnĕo , tĭnŭi, tentum, 2, v. a. subs for sub, and teneo,
I.to hold up, hold upright, uphold, to bear up, keep up, support, sustain (syn. fulcio).
I. Lit.
B. In partic., to hold or keep back, to keep in, stay, check, restrain, control, etc. (syn.: refreno, supprimo, moror): currum equosque, Lucil. ap. Cic. Att. 13, 21, 3: “currum,id. Lael. 17, 63 (v. infra, II. B. 3.): “equos,Caes. B. G. 4, 33: “remos,Cic. Att. 13, 21, 3: “manum,Ov. F. 5, 302: “sustinet a jugulo dextram,Verg. A. 11, 750: “a jugulo nitentem sustinet hastam,Stat. Th. 2, 648: “flumina Threiciā lyrā,Prop. 3, 2, 2 (4, 1, 42): “nunc agendo, nunc sustinendo agmen,Liv. 25, 36, 1: “aliud simile miraculum eos sustinuit,id. 5, 39, 2: “signa,id. 31, 24, 8: “gradum,Ov. F. 6, 398: “perterritum exercitum,Caes. B. C. 1, 71: “se,Cic. Tusc. 4, 18, 41; Val. Fl. 3, 100: “se ab omni assensu,” i. e. to refrain, Cic. Ac. 2, 15, 48: “se a respondendo,id. ib. 2, 32, 104. — Poet.: “celeres vias,” i. e. to halt, Sen. Hippol. 794.—
II. Trop.
B. In partic.
3. (Acc. to I. B.) To hold in, stop, stay, check, restrain; to keep back, put off, defer, delay: “est igitur prudentis sustinere ut currum sic impetum benevolentiae,Cic. Lael. 17, 63; so, “impetum hostis,Caes. B. G. 1, 24; 1, 26; 2, 11; “3, 2 et saep.: subitas hostium incursiones,Hirt. B. G. 8, 11; cf.: “Curio praemittit equites, qui primum impetum sustineant ac morentur,Caes. B. C. 2, 26: “bellum consilio,Liv. 3, 60, 1: “assensus lubricos,Cic. Ac. 2, 34, 108: “sustinenda solutio est nominis Caerelliani,id. Att. 12, 51, 3: “oppugnationem ad noctem,Caes. B. G. 5, 37, 6: “rem in noctem,Liv. 5, 35, 7: “iram,id. 2, 19, 4.
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