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rĕ-sŭpīno, no perf., ātum, 1, v. a., to bend or turn back (rare; not in Cic.).
- I. Lit.: puer ad me accurrit, Pone apprehendit pallio, resupinat, Ter. Phorm. 5, 6, 23: assurgentem ibi regem umbone resupinat, Liv. 4, 19: hominem, Cels. 7, 16: nares planā manu, to bend back, Quint. 11, 3, 80: colla (turtures, cum bibunt), Plin. 10, 34, 52, § 105; cf.: caput (aves bibentes), id. 10, 46, 63, § 129: valvas, to beat in, break down, Prop. 4 (5), 8, 51: resupinati cessantia tympana Galli, i. e. prostrate from drunkenness, Juv. 8, 176 et saep.
In mal. part., to stretch out: aviam amici, Juv. 3, 112.
Pass. in mid. force: leones resupinari, Plin. 24, 17, 102, § 162.
- II. Trop.: rem, to overthrow, ruin, destroy, Att. ap. Non. 165, 3: quid tantopere te resupinet? makes proud, puffs up, Sen. Ben. 2, 13, 1.
rĕ-sŭpīnus, a, um, adj., bent back or backwards, lying on one’s back or with the face upwards, supine (not in Cic.).
- I. Lit.: resupinum in caelo contueri, i. e. lying on one’s back, face upwards, supine, Att. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 22, 44: fertur equis curruque haeret resupinus inani, Verg. A. 1, 476: eque tuo pendet resupino spiritus ore, Lucr. 1, 37; Ov. H. 16, 255; id. M. 2, 267: jacuit resupinus humi, id. ib. 4, 121; 12, 324: hunc ego resupinum fudi, id. ib. 13, 86 al.: retro lentas tendo resupinus habenas, bent back, id. ib. 15, 520: collum, id. ib. 1, 730: pectus, id. ib. 12, 138: caput, Plin. 8, 25, 38, § 93 et saep.
Of an arrogant gait or manner: (Niobe) mediam tulerat gressus resupina per urbem, with head thrown back, i. e. proudly, Ov. M. 6, 275; cf. Sen. Ep. 80, 7; Cod. Th. 9, 3, 6: si non resupini spectantesque tectum expectaverimus, quid obveniat, Quint. 10, 3, 15: spectat resupino sidera vultu, Mart. 9, 44, 3.
- B. Transf., of things turned or bent back: Elis, spread out on a hill, Stat. Th. 4, 237: labra lilii, Plin. 21, 5, 11, § 23: vomer, id. 18, 18, 48, § 171.
- II. Trop., lazy, slothful, effeminate, careless, negligent: voluptas, Quint. 5, 12, 20; cf. id. 11, 3, 167: qui solvit, numquam ita resupinus est, ut facile suas pecunias jactet, Dig. 22, 3, 25: existimatio, ib. 43, 24, 4.