Sustento, sustentas, sustentâre, Frequent. Plaut.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.
Sustineo, sústines, pen. cor. sustínui, sustentum, sustinêre. Cic.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.
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sustento, āvi, ātum, 1, v. freq. a. [sustineo], to hold up or upriqht, to uphold, support, prop, sustain (syn. sustineo). 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,
, Tac. A. 2, 17: aciem, id. ib. 1, 65fin.; 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, 14fin.—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.
sustĭnĕo, tĭnŭi, tentum, 2, v. a. [subs for sub, and teneo], to hold up, hold upright, uphold, to bear up, keep up, support, sustain (syn. fulcio). 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.