To hold or stay vp: to sustaine: to suffer: to indure: to forbeare: to maintaine: to support: to fanor: to stop: to stay: to hold backe: to deferte: to refraine: to beare off: to feed. Vineæ sine adminiculis se ipsæ sustinent. Pli. Stay vp. Sustinere. Ter. To suffer. Dolores sustinere. Plin. iun. To sustaine. Sustinere aliquod nefas. Ouid. Sustinere se. Cic. To refraine and stay himselfe. Ab omni assensu se sustinere. Cic. Sustinere se respondendo. Ci. To refraine frõ answering. Non sustineo. Qnint: I cannot: I dare not. Singulis summa cura consulere non sustinent. Cels. Hanc cædem eos qui spectare sustinuissent, execratus est. Suet. That did abide to beholde. Ea sustinere vix poterat, quæ contra Academicorum pertinaciam dicebantur. Cice. He coulde scantly withstande or defende, &c. Rem in noctem sustinere. Li. To delay or defer the thing till night. Aliquem sua auctoritate sustinere. Brutus ad Cicer. To defende, helpe and snccour one with his authoritie. Aciem sustinere. Tac. Aestus sustinere. Ouid. Artus infirmos baculo sustinere. Ouid. To stay vp. Artus titubantes sustinere serula. Ouid. Casus fortuitos magno animo sustinere. Colu. Valiantly to indure or abide the mischaunces of for tune. Causam alicuius rei sustinere. Cic. To beare the blame of a thing. Cuius mortis causam fugitiui sustinÊt. Ci. Of whose death certaine vagabondes & runnagates beare all the blame. Causam publicam sustinere. Cic. To defend the quarrell of the common weale. Ceruicibus suis sustinere Rempub. Cic. With his power & wisedome to vpholde the common weale. Cibo aliquo sustincri. Colum. To bee fed and nourished with a meare. Concursum omnium philosophorum sustinere. C. To sustain or abide the affault of all philosophers. Conuitium quotidianum sustinere. Cicer. To abide vayly to be rated and railed at. Crimen sustinere. Cic. To excuse and defende a thing laide to ones charge. Culpam alicuius rei sustinere. Cicero. To beare the blame of a thing. Curam belli sustinere. Cic. To haue all the care of the warre. Maximan hîc solicitudinem, curamq, sustineo. Plancus Cic. I am here in verie greate solicitousnesse and care. Currum sustinere. Cic. To stay or stoppe the chariote. Cursum & impetum beneuolentiæ sustinere Ci. To restraine and represse, or to stay the course and violence of friendship. Diem extremum fati sustinet. Ouid. He deferreth to die. Dignitatem & decus ciuitatis sustinere. Ci. To maintaine and vpholde, &c. Equos incitatos sustinere. Cæs. To stoppe or holde backe. Sustines non paruam expectationem imitandæ industriæ nostræ. Cic. Men haue no small expectation of thee to folowe, &c. or men looke earnestly, that you, &c. Sustinere ac tueri expectarionem sui. Cice. To maintaine and keepe the good opinion and expectation that men haue of him. Fama tua & officium non sustinet, vt, &c. Balbus Ciceroni. The good name you haue, and the vond of honest dutie will not suffer and abide, that, &c. Gradum sustinere. Ouid. To stay: to stop. Vix sustineo grauitatem huius cœli. Cic. I am scarce able to abide the vutemperate aire of this place. Humeris sustinere Rempub. Cic. Imperia alicuius sustinere. Cæs. To abide ones rule and dominion. Impetum hostium sustinere. Liui. To resiste and beare of the violent assault. Incursum alicuius sustinere. Oui. Iniuriam sustinere dicitur sementis, cui perire opponitur. Col. To abide and withstand the vnseasonable time. Labentem fulsit & sustinuit. Cic. Labores sustinere. Ouid. Nihil est mali quod non sustineam. Cic. Magnitudinem imperij sustinere. Cic. Manum suam sustinere. Ouidius. To stay his hande and not to strike. Vix molem huius inuidiæ sustinebo. Cic. I shall be scant able to abide or withstande the great heap of enuie. Ille furoris multam sustinuerat, hic erroris. Cic. Solus tantam multitudinem sustinere non possum. Cn. Magnus Domitio. I alone cannot resiste so greate a multitude. Munera sustinere. Cic. Magnum munus de aliqua re sustinere. Ci. To beare a greate charge in any matter. Munus consulare sustinere Ci. To be able to execute the office of a Consull: to beare the office of, &c. Negotia sustinere. Horatius. To haue the charge of doing of things. Totum negotium gubernare, & suis humeris sustinere. Cic. Ciuitatis nomen sua authoritare sustinere. Cice. With his authoritie to maintaine the name of the Citie. Nomen publicani sustinere. Cic. To abide or suffer, &c. Officium sustinere. Cic. Onus magnum sustinere. Cicero. To sustaine a great tharge or burden. Partes salutis alicuius sustinere. Cic. To be able to defend ones life and good estate, Consulis partes sustineo. Tac. I execute the office of a Consul. Personam magistri sustinere. Suton. To play the maister: to beare the porte and cstate of a maister. Pœnam subire ac sustinere. Cic. Prælia sustinere. Cic. To abide battels. Pugnam sustinere, Liu. Se sustinere lapsu. Liu. To stay himselfe from falling. Sermones hominum sustinere. Cic. To abide the ill talke of men. Seruitutem ferre & sustinere. Cic. Simulatio fronte & vultu sustinetur. Ci. Simulation is main- tained with ones looke or countenance. Sumptum sustinere. Brutus Ciceroni. To beare charges. Suspicionem sustinere. Plaut. To beare the suspicion: to be suspected. Tela sustinere. Liu. To stay his dartes and not caste them. Vultum alicuius sustinere. Liu. To abide ones looke. Flnuiatili pisce & herbis sustinebãtur. Li. They were norished and fed with fresh water fishe, and herbes.

I. Lit.

A. In gen.: onus alicui, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 68: quantum hominum terra sustinet, id. Poen. prol. 90; id. Men. 1, 1, 13: cum Milo umeris sustineret bovem vivum, Cic. Sen. 10, 33: arma membraque, Liv. 23, 45, 3; Curt. 6, 1, 11; 7, 5, 8: infirmos baculo artus, to support, Ov. M. 6, 27: furcis spectacula, Liv. 1, 35, 9: ingenuā speculum manu, Ov. A. A. 2, 216: fornice exstructo, quo pons sustinebatur, Auct. B. Alex. 19, 4: manibus clipeos et hastam Et galeam, Ov. H. 3, 119: vix populum tellus sustinet illa suum, id. ib. 15 (16), 182: lapis albus Pocula cum cyatho duo sustinet, Hor. S. 1, 6, 117: vas ad sustinenda opsonia, Plin. 33, 11, 49, 140: aër volatus alitum sustinet, Cic. N. D. 2, 39, 101: lacus omnia illata pondera sustinens, bearing on its surface, Plin. 6, 27, 31, 127: ecce populus Romanus universus veluti duobus navigiis inpositus binis cardinibus sustinetur, id. 36, 15, 24, 119: domum pluribus adminiculis fulcit ac sustinet, Plin. Ep. 4, 21, 3: se, to support one's self, hold one's self up, stand, etc., Caes. B. G. 2, 25; so, se a lapsu, Liv. 21, 35: se alis, Ov. M. 4, 411. —

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.

A. In gen., to uphold, sustain, maintain, preserve: dignitatem et decus civitatis, Cic. Off. 1, 34, 124: causam rei publicae, id. Fam. 9, 8, 2; cf.: causam publicam, id. Div. in Caecil. 8, 27: exspectationem, id. Off. 3, 2, 6: tris personas unus sustineo, characters, id. de Or. 2, 24, 102: personam magistri, to personate, Suet. Gram. 24: quid muneris in rem publicam fungi ac sustinere velitis, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 86, 199: historiam veterem atque antiquam haec mea senectus sustinet, Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 100: vitam, Maecen. ap. Sen. Ep. 101, 11.—Poet.: (arbor) ingentem sustinet umbram, Verg. G. 2, 297.—

B. In partic.

1. To sustain, support, maintain, by food, money, or other means: hac (sc. re frumentariā) alimur et sustinemur, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 5, 11: veterem amicum suum labentem excepit, fulsit et sustinuit re, fortunā, fide, id. Rab. Post. 16, 43: qui ager non amplius hominum quinque milia potest sustinere, id. Att. 2, 16, 1: alicujus munificentiā sustineri, Liv. 39, 9, 6: hinc patriam parvosque nepotes Sustinet, Verg. G. 2, 515: necessitates aliorum, Liv. 6, 15, 9: plebem, id. 3, 65, 6: penuriam temporum, Col. 9, 14, 17.—

2. To bear, undergo, endure; to hold out against, withstand (so most freq.; syn.: fero, tolero, patior): mala ferre sustinereque, Cic. Tusc. 5, 6, 16: non tu scis, quantum malarum rerum sustineam, Plaut. Merc. 2, 4, 8: innocens suspitionem hanc sustinet causā meā, id. Bacch. 3, 3, 32: labores, Cic. Rep. 1, 3: aestatem, Hirt. B. G. 8, 39, 3: dolorem pedum, Plin. Ep. 1, 12, 5: dolores, id. ib. 1, 12, 8: certamen, Liv. 33, 36, 12: vim hostium, Nep. Hann. 11, 4: periculum, Dig. 18, 6, 1: o dii, quis hujus potentiam poterit sustinere? Cic. Phil. 7, 6, 17: alicujus imperia, Caes. B. G. 1, 31: vulnera, id. ib. 1, 45: Philo ea sustinere vix poterat, quae contra Academicorum pertinaciam dicebantur, Cic. Ac. 2, 6, 18; Vatin. ap. Cic. Fam. 5, 10, 2: Peloponnesum, Cic. Att. 10, 12, 7: eos (rogantes), Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 13, 3; Liv. 31, 13: senatus querentes eos non sustinuit, id. 31, 13, 4: justa petentem deam, Ov. M. 14, 788: ferrum ignemque Jovemque, id. ib. 13, 385 et saep.—Absol.: expectes et sustineas necesse est, Mart. 9, 3, 13: neque jam sustineri poterat, Caes. B. G. 2, 6; cf. Cic. Fam. 12, 6, 4; Liv. 29, 6, 17.—

(b). With obj.-clause (mostly with a negative: non sustinet, he cannot bear, cannot endure; he does not take upon himself, does not venture): non sustineo esse conscius mihi dissimulati judicii mei, Quint. 3, 6, 64: non impositos supremis ignibus artus Sustinuit spectare parens, Ov. M. 13, 584; so negatively, id. ib. 1, 530; 6, 367; 6, 606; 9, 439; 10, 47; id. F. 4, 850; Vell. 2, 86, 2. — In a negative interrog.: sustinebant tales viri, se tot senatoribus, etc.... non credidisse? tantae populi Romani voluntati restitisse? Sustineant. Reperiemus, etc., Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 4, 10: hoc quidem quis hominum sustineat petulans esse ad alterius arbitrium? Quint. 12, 9, 10; 3, 6, 64: deserere officii sui partes, Plin. Ep. 9, 13, 16; 9, 13, 6: Parmenionem rursus castigare non sustinebat, Curt. 4, 13, 8; 6, 1, 15: nec solus bibere sustineo, id. 7, 5, 12; 7, 6, 15; 8, 5, 7; Vell. 2, 86, 2; Suet. Caes. 75.—Affirmatively: quem in vinculis habituri erant, sustinuere venerari, Curt. 5, 10, 13: colloqui cum eo, quem damnaverat, sustinuit, id. 6, 8, 16; 7, 5, 38; 10, 5, 25: quae se praeferre Dianae Sustinuit, took upon herself, presumed, Ov. M. 11, 322; so, sustinet ire illuc, id. ib. 4, 447; 6, 563; id. H. 5, 32; Phaedr. 4, 16, 8: aliquem videre, Auct. Cons. Liv. 135: si quis aquam ... haurire sustineat, Plin. 30, 7, 20, 64: mentiri, Petr. 116.—

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.