On high. Ferre sublimead sydera. Virg. Extenuarus aer sublime fertur. Cic.

High: that is aboue vs: hautis: aloft. Ex sublimi vertice saxi. Cic. Anhelitu sublime fugere. Hora. To runne away holding vp his head to fetch breath. Atrium sublime. Horat. Carmina sublimia. Ouid. Verses of an high stile. Nomen sublime. Ouid. An hautie or high name. Pectora sublimia. Ouid. Hautie courages minding highe aud heauenly things. Sceptrum sublime Iouis. Claud. Solio sublimi sedet. Ouid. Tectum sublime centum columnis. Virg. Versus sublimes ructatur. Horat. Sublimem abire. Liu. To goe vp to an high hil: to mount into the aire. Rapere sublimem. Virg. To take and carrie vp aloft. Sublimem hunc intro rape. Ter. Hoise vp this fellom aloft and carie him in. In sublime. Plin. On high: aloft. Iacere in sublime. Plin.

I. Lit.

A. In gen., high, lofty: hic vertex nobis semper sublimis, Verg. G. 1, 242; cf. Hor. C. 1, 1, 36: montis cacumen, Ov. M. 1, 666: tectum, id. ib. 14, 752: columna, id. ib. 2, 1: atrium, Hor. C. 3, 1, 46: arcus (Iridis), Plin. 2, 59, 60, 151: portae, Verg. A. 12, 133: nemus, Luc. 3, 86 et saep.: os, directed upwards (opp. to pronus), Ov. M. 1, 85; cf. id. ib. 15, 673; Hor. A. P. 457: flagellum, uplifted, id. C. 3, 26, 11: armenta, Col. 3, 8: currus, Liv. 28, 9.—Comp.: quanto sublimior Atlas Omnibus in Libyā sit montibus, Juv. 11, 24.—Sup.: triumphans in illo sublimissimo curru, Tert. Apol. 33.—

B. Esp., borne aloft, uplifted, elevated, raised: rapite sublimem foras, Plaut. Mil. 5, 1: sublimem aliquem rapere (arripere, auferre, ferre), id. As. 5, 2, 18; id. Men. 5, 7, 3; 5, 7, 6; 5, 7, 13; 5, 8, 3; Ter. And. 5, 2, 20; id. Ad. 3, 2, 18; Verg. A. 5, 255; 11, 722 (in all these passages others read sublimen, q. v.); Ov. M 4, 363 al.: campi armis sublimibus ardent, borne aloft, lofty, Verg. A. 11, 602: sublimes in equis redeunt, id. ib. 7, 285: apparet liquido sublimis in aëre Nisus, id. G. 1, 404; cf.: ipsa (Venus) Paphum sublimis abit, on high through the air, id. A. 1, 415: sublimis abit, Liv. 1, 16; 1, 34: vehitur, Ov. M. 5, 648 al.—

C. On high, lofty, in a high position: tenuem texens sublimis aranea telum, Cat. 68, 49: juvenem sublimem stramine ponunt, Verg. A. 11, 67: sedens solio sublimis avito, Ov. M. 6, 650: Tyrio jaceat sublimis in ostro, id. H. 12, 179.—

D. Subst.: sublīme, is, n., height; sometimes to be rendered the air: piro per lusum in sublime jactato, Suet. Claud. 27; so, in sublime, Auct. B. Afr. 84, 1; Plin. 10, 38, 54, 112; 31, 6, 31, 57: per sublime volantes grues, id. 18, 35, 87, 362: in sublimi posita facies Dianae, id. 36, 5, 4, 13: ex sublimi devoluti, id. 27, 12, 105, 129.—Plur.: antiquique memor metuit sublimia casus, Ov. M. 8, 259: per maria ac terras sublimaque caeli, Lucr. 1, 340.—

II. Trop., lofty, exalted, eminent, distinguished.

A. In gen.: antiqui reges ac sublimes viri, Varr. R. R. 2, 4, 9; cf. Luc. 10, 378: mens, Ov. P. 3, 3, 103: pectora, id. F. 1, 301: nomen, id. Tr. 4, 10, 121: sublimis, cupidusque et amata relinquere pernix, aspiring, Hor. A. P. 165; cf.: nil parvum sapias et adhuc sublimia cures, id. Ep. 1, 12, 15.—Comp.: quā claritate nihil in rebus humanis sublimius duco, Plin. 22, 5, 5, 10; Juv. 8, 232.—Sup.: sancimus supponi duos sublimissimos judices, Cod. Just. 7, 62, 39.—

B. In partic., of language, lofty, elevated, sublime (freq. in Quint.): sublimia carmina, Juv. 7, 28: verbum, Quint. 8, 3, 18: clara et sublimia verba, id. ib.: oratio, id. 8, 3, 74: genus dicendi, id. 11, 1, 3: actio (opp. causae summissae), id. 11, 3, 153: si quis sublimia humilibus misceat, id. 8, 3, 60 et saep.—Transf., of orators, poets, etc.: natura sublimis et acer, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 165: sublimis et gravis et grandiloquus (Aeschylus), Quint. 10, 1, 66: Trachalus plerumque sublimis, id. 10, 1, 119.—Comp.: sublimior gravitas Sophoclis, Quint. 10, 1, 68: sublimius aliquid, id. 8, 3, 14: jam sublimius illud pro Archiā, Saxa atque solitudines voci respondent, id. 8, 3, 75.—Hence, advv.

1. Lit., aloft, loftily, on high.

(a). Form sub-līmĭter (rare): stare, upright, Cato, R. R. 70, 2; so id. ib. 71: volitare, Col. 8, 11, 1: munitur locus, id. 8, 15, 1.—

(b). Form sub-līme (class.): Theodori nihil interest, humine an sublime putescat, Cic. Tusc. 1, 43, 102; cf.: scuta, quae fuerant sublime fixa, sunt humi inventa, id. Div. 2, 31, 67: volare, Lucr. 2, 206; 6, 97: ferri, Cic. Tusc. 1, 17, 40; id. N. D. 2, 39, 101; 2, 56, 141 Orell. N. cr.: elati, Liv. 21, 30: expulsa, Verg. G. 1, 320 et saep.—

b. Comp.: sublimius altum Attollit caput, Ov. Hal. 69.—

2. Trop., of speech, in a lofty manner, loftily (very rare): alia sublimius, alia gravius esse dicenda, Quint. 9, 4, 130.