I.to aid by giving; to give, furnish, afford, supply (class.).
I. Lit.: “pecuniam alicui,” Cic. Deiot. 9, 25: “tela clam,” id. Cael. 9, 20: “tela ad manum,” Quint. 5, 7, 8: “tela agentibus,” id. 12, 3, 4: “lapides telaque,” Caes. B. G. 3, 25: “frumentum,” id. ib. 1, 40: “auxilia hostibus nostris,” id. ib. 4, 20: “sauciis ac defatigatis integros equites, Auct. B. Afr. 78: puteus, qui CCC. pondo argenti Hannibali sumministravit in dies,” Plin. 33, 6, 31, § 97: “aquam radicibus,” Col. 5, 10: “pabulum,” id. 6, 3, 2: “tabellarios,” Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 13, 4: “cibum,” Lact. 5, 14, 17.—
II. Trop.: “Aristoteles huic arti plurima adjumenta atque ornamenta sumministravit,” Cic. Inv. 1, 5, 7: “occasiones alicui,” Suet. Tib. 61: “timores,” Sen. Ep. 104, 10: “materiam eloquentiae,” Tac. Or. 37: “tantum animorum viriumque patriae et penatium conspectus sumministrat,” Just. 6, 7, 5: “spem salutis licet tardam,” App. M. 11 init.
