Suppleo, supples, suppléui, supplêrum, pen. pro. supplêre. Plin. iun.To make vp that whiche lacketh: to make euen: to fill the place of him that lacketh: to fill vp.Librum imperfectú supplere. Suet. To make perfit a booke.Quod cessat ex reditu, frugalitate suppletur. Plin iun. That lacketh of reuenew, is supplyed with thrifti spating.Ponite ante oculos M. Antonium Consularem: sperantem Consultatum Lucium adiúgite, supplete cæteros, &c. C. Si sœtura gregem suppleuerit. Virgil. If he haue as many lambes as sheepe.Legiones vel exercitum supplere.Liu.To surnish vp an armie, where some of the number lacketh.Si supplemento opus esset, suppleret de legionibus, Liu.Remigio naues supplere.Liu.Remis Zephyros supplere cadentes. Sta. To helpe the winde with nres to driue forward the ship.Bibliothecã supplere.Cic.To furnish a librarie with books where it lacketh.Vsum prouinciæ supplere.Cic.To giue one that is necessarie to spend in che time that he is in the prouince.Supplere. Cice. To helpe one to speake when he can not tell what to aunswere. Supplere. Cato. To fil vp.Vulnera suppleuit lacbrumis, Ouid.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
sup-plĕo (subpl)-, ēvi, ētum, 2, v. a., to fill up, make full or whole, to make good, to complete, supply (class.; cf.: reficio, suppedito). I. In gen.: fiscellam, Cato, R. R. 88, 1: dum suppleri summa queatur, Lucr. 1, 1044: bibliothecam, Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 4, 5: usum provinciae, id. Verr. 2, 4, 5, 9: Hirtius, qui Gallici belli novissimum librum supplevit, Suet. Caes. 56: adjectoque cavae supplentur corpore rugae, Ov. M. 7, 291: vulnera supplevit lacrimis, id. ib. 4, 140: tu mihi da cives et inania moenia (i. e. urbem) supple, fill up, i. e. people, id. ib. 7, 628; cf.: si fetura gregem suppleverit, Verg. E. 7, 36: ad supplenda exercitūs damna, Tac. A. 1, 71: damna incendiorum multis,
to make good
,
repair
, Suet. Calig. 16; cf. id. Aug. 41: colos consumptas, Sen. Herc. Oet. 1084: aerarium, Tac. A. 2, 38: ut referendis praeteritis verbis id scriptum suppleatur, Cic. de Or. 2, 26, 110: hypocauston. si dies nubilus, immisso vapore solis vicem supplet, supplies the place of, Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 24; so, locum parentis tibi, Sen. Hipp. 633: remis Zephyros, Stat. Achill. 2, 20: ponite ante oculos M. Antonium consularem, sperantem consulatum Lucium adjungite: supplete ceteros, etc., Cic. Phil. 12, 6, 14: praemia,
to furnish
, Aus. Idyll. 10, 412: suppletis lucernis, i. e.
with oil
, Prop. 4 (5), 8, 43: simili mixturā vas suppleatur, Col. 12, 10, 2. — Absol.: supplet iste nescio qui, Cic. Fl. 17, 40.—II. In partic., in milit. lang., to fill up, make complete or full in number, furnish with a complement, recruit: cum sex legionibus iisque suppletis ex Bruti exercitu, M. Anton. ap. Cic. Phil. 8, 9, 27: legiones, Liv. 29, 24, 14: exercitum junioribus, Just. 12, 11, 4: legiones subito delectu, Tac. H. 4, 19: decurias equitum, Suet. Tib. 41: naves remigio, Liv. 26, 39, 7; cf. remigium, Verg. A. 3, 471.
