To sustaine or beare vp: to aide: to helpe: to nourish: to feede: to maintaine: to indure: to suffer: to abide patiently. Moles sustentata per multos annos. Lucret. Borne vp, &c. Aciem sustentare, Vide ACIES. Solus omnem familiam sustentat. Tere. Hee onely findeth all the house. Schola se sustentare. Sueton. To finde himselfe by teaching a schoole. O quam ibi miseriam vidi, quot labores hausi, quam animo molestiam cepi. O rem ad patiendum tolerandumué difficilem, præsertim cùm ab alijs quibus non expectabas, imò quod multo grauius est, tuæ disciplinæ alumnis a) *xaecsi/as crimen te subire apertè inteltelligas. Alere & sustentare. Cic. Casus suos alienis opibus sustentare. Ci. To prouide for his necessities with the helpe of other men. Domum & pacem sustentauit. Tac. Egestatem & luxuriam dom estico latrocinio sustentare. Cicer. Famem sustentare. Cæs. To helpe and feede his hunger. Sustentat spes inopiam. Cæs. Laborem spe otij sustentare. Salust. To sustaine or abide labour in hope of quietnesse. Hominum mentes cogitationeq; spes sustentat. Ci. Hope feedeth, &c. Sustentare aliquem suis officijs. Cice. To helpe one with all the pleasures that he can. Parsimoniam alicuius suis sumptibus sustentare. Cic. Non iuris scientia, sed eloquentia sustentari. Cic. Subsidijs & liberalitate aliquorum sustentari. Cice. Sustentare tenuitatem alicuius. Cic. To helpe ones pouertie or poore estate. Sustentare ac tucri valetudinem suam. Cic. Valetudo sui corporis notitia & obseruatione sustentatur. Cic. Vitia alicuius sustentare. Salust. Sustenta te mea Terentia vt potes. Cicer. Helpe your selfe deare Terentia in these euilles so well as you can. Me vix misereque sustento. Cic. Tua virtnte sustentes te. Cic. Comforte your selfe in consideration of your owne vertue. Præclara conscientia sustentor. Cic. I comfort my self with the testimonie of my owne conscience. Literis sustentor & recreor. Cic. I am comforted, &c. Consolatione sustentari. Cic. Sustentare aliquem. Cic. To aide and fanour one: to vpholde and maintaine one, &c. Fide aliquos sustentare. Cic. Sustentare. Cic. To deferre: to delay. vt, Aedificationem in tuum aduentum susten tari placebat. Sustentare malum. Liu. To abide or indure, &c. Quum sustentare vix poffes mœrorem cuam. Cice. Sustentâtum est, Imperionale. Cæs. Aegrè eo die sustentatum est. Cæs. With greate paine that day they resisted, or withstoode their enimies.

I. Lit. (only poet. and in post-Aug. prose): multos per annos Sustentata ruet moles et machina mundi, Lucr. 5, 96: Hercule quondam Sustentante polum, Claud. Laud. Stil. 2, 143: Alcanor fratrem ruentem Sustentat dextrā, Verg. A. 10, 339: in Tiberim abjectum, Plin. 8, 40, 61, 145: naufraga sustentant ... vela (i. e. navem) Lacones, Claud. B. Gild. 222; cf.: aegre seque et arma sustentans, Curt. 8, 4, 15.—

B. To bear, wear: catenas, Vop. Aur. 34.—

II. Trop., to keep up, uphold, sustain, maintain, support, bear, uplift, preserve (class. and freq.).

A. In gen.: exsanguem jam et jacentem (civitatem), Cic. Rep. 2, 1, 2; cf.: rem publicam, id. Mur. 2, 3: imbecillitatem valetudinis tuae sustenta et tuere, id. Fam. 7, 1, 5: valetudo sustentatur notitiā sui corporis, id. Off. 2, 24, 86; Vell. 2, 114, 1: Terentiam, unam omnium aerumnosissimam, sustentes tuis officiis, Cic. Att. 3, 23, 5: tu velim tete tuā virtute sustentes, id. Fam. 6, 4, 5: me una consolatio sustentat, quod, etc., id. Mil. 36, 100: per omnis difficultates animo me sustentavi, Quint. 12, prooem. 1: litteris sustentor et recreor, Cic. Att. 4, 10, 1; cf.: praeclarā conscientiā sustentor, cum cogito, etc., id. ib. 10, 4, 5: Pompeius intellegit, C. Catonem a Crasso sustentari, id. Q. Fr. 2, 3, 4: jurisconsultus, non suo artificio sed alieno sustentatus, id. de Or. 1, 56, 239: amicos suos fide, id. Rab. Post. 2, 4: si qua spes reliqua est, quae fortium civium mentes cogitationesque sustentet, id. Fl. 2, 3: spes inopiam sustentabat, Caes. B. C. 3, 49: res publica magnis meis laboribus sustentata, Cic. Mur. 2, 3: Venus Trojanas sustentat opes, Verg. A. 10, 609: multa virum meritis sustentat fama tropaeis, upholds, id. ib. 11, 224: Arminius manu, voce, vulnere sustentabat pugnam, kept up, maintained, Tac. A. 2, 17: aciem, id. ib. 1, 65 fin.; id. H. 2, 15.—

B. In partic.

1. To support, sustain, maintain, preserve by food, money, or other means: familiam, Ter. Ad. 3, 4, 36: cum esset silvestris beluae sustentatus uberibus, Cic. Rep. 2, 2, 4: idem (aër) spiritu ductus alit et sustentat animantis, id. N. D. 2, 39, 101: qui se subsidiis patrimonii aut amicorum liberalitate sustentant, id. Prov. Cons. 5, 12: eo (frumento) sustentata est plebs, Liv. 2, 34, 5: sustentans fovensque, Plin. Ep. 9, 30, 3: saucios largitione et curā, Tac. A. 4, 63 fin.: animus nullā re egens aletur et sustentabitur isdem rebus, quibus astra sustentantur et aluntur, Cic. Tusc. 1, 19, 43; cf.: furtim rapta sustentat pectora terra, refreshes, Stat. Th. 6, 875: parsimoniam patrum suis sumptibus, Cic. Cael. 16, 38: tenuitatem alicujus, id. Fam. 16, 21, 4: egestatem et luxuriem domestico lenocinio sustentavit, id. Red. Sen. 5, 11: Glycera venditando coronas sustentaverat paupertatem, Plin. 35, 11, 40, 125; cf.: ut milites pecore ex longinquioribus vicis adacto extremam famem sustentarent, Caes. B.G. 7, 17.—Mid.: mutando sordidas merces sustentabatur, supported himself, got a living, Tac. A. 4, 13; for which in the act. form: Ge. Valuistin' bene? Pa. Sustentavi sedulo, I have taken good care of myself, have kept myself in good case, Plaut. Stich. 4, 2, 8; cf. impers. pass.: Ge. Valuistin' usque? Ep. Sustentatum'st sedulo, id. ib. 3, 2, 14. —

2. To keep in check, hold back, restrain: milites, paulisper ab rege sustentati, paucis amissis profugi discedunt, Sall. J. 56, 6; cf. aciem, Auct. B. Afr. 82: aquas, Auct. Cons. Liv. 221. —

3. To bear, hold out, endure, suffer (rare but class.; syn.: fero, patior): miserias plurimas, Plaut. Capt. 5, 1, 3: moerorem doloremque, Cic. Pis. 36, 89. —Absol. (sc. morbum), Suet. Tib. 72: procellas invidiae, Claud. in Eutr. 1, 265: aegre is dies sustentatur, Caes. B. G. 5, 39: quorum auxiliis atque opibus, si qua bella inciderint, sustentare consuerint, id. ib. 2, 14 fin.—Impers. pass.: aegre eo die sustentatum est, a defence was made, Caes. B. G. 2, 6: hostem, Tac. A. 15, 10 fin.: bellum, Vell. 2, 104, 2: impetus legionum, Auct. B. Hisp. 17, 3. — Absol.: nec, nisi in tempore subventum foret, ultra sustentaturi fuerint, Liv. 34, 18, 2. —

4. To put off, defer, delay (Ciceron.; syn. prolato): rem, dum, etc., Cic. Fam. 13, 64, 1: aedificationem ad tuum adventum, id. Q. Fr. 2, 7: id (malum) opprimi sustentando ac prolatando nullo pacto potest ... celeriter vobis vindicandum est, id. Cat. 4, 3, 6; cf. Ov. R. Am. 405.