subdĭ-tus

sub-do, dĭdi, dĭtum, 3, v. a.

To put, place, set, or lay under (syn.: suppono, sterno).

Lit. (class.).

In gen.: ego puerum interead ancillae subdam lactantem meae, Liv. Andron. ap. Non. p. 153, 26 (Trag. Rel. v. 26 Rib.):

ignem subdito,

Cato, R. R. 105, 1; so,

ignem,

id. ib. 38, 4; Cic. N. D. 2, 10, 27; Liv. 8, 30 al.:

faces,

Lucr. 6, 1285:

lapidem magnetem,

id. 6, 1046:

manum oculo uni,

id. 4, 447; cf.:

rem oculorum visu,

id. 5, 101:

furcas vitibus,

Plin. 14, 2, 4, § 32:

pugionem pulvino,

Suet. Oth. 11; id. Dom. 17:

calcaria equo,

Liv. 2, 20; 4, 19; 22, 6; cf.:

risus stimulos animo subdidit,

id. 6, 34, 7:

id genus animalium (tauros) aratro,

Tac. A. 12, 24:

se aquis,

to plunge under, Ov. M. 4, 722:

colla vinclis,

Tib. 1, 2, 90 et saep.:

versus,

to append, add, Gell. 18, 4, 11; 19, 11, 3; cf.:

hic tu paulisper haesisti, deinde ilico subdidisti: quid de duobus consulibus, etc.,

subjoined, Aus. Grat. Act. 23.—Esp., of places, in part. perf.: Celaletae (populi) majores Haemo, Minores Rhodopae subditi, that dwell at the foot of Mount Hœmus, etc., Plin. 4, 11, 18, § 41; cf.:

Libye subdita Cancro,

lying under, Sil. 1, 194.—

In partic., to bring under, subject, subdue, = subicere (very rare):

Plutonis subdita regno Magna deum proles,

Tib. 4, 1, 67:

tot subdite rebus!

Pers. 5, 124:

subdidit Oceanum sceptris,

Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 42: Hispanum Oceanum legibus, id. [p. 1774] III. Cons. Stil. praef. 8:

rem tam magnam iisdem tempestatibus, iisdem casibus subdere,

to expose, Plin. Ep. 3, 19, 4:

imperio feminae,

Tac. A. 12, 40.—Part.: subdĭ-tus, a, um, subject (late Lat.):

subditas viris,

Vulg. Tit. 2, 5:

tibi,

id. Jud. 3, 2:

justum est, subditum esse Deo,

id. 2 Macc. 9, 12:

subditi estote in omni timore,

id. 1 Pet. 2, 18.—

Trop., to bring on, furnish, supply; to yield, afford (so not in Cic.):

iraï fax subdita,

Lucr. 3, 303:

id nobis acriores ad studia dicendi faces subdidisse,

Quint. 1, 2, 25:

irritatis militum animis subdere ignem,

Liv. 8, 32:

ingenio stimulos,

Ov. Tr. 5, 1, 76; Liv. 6, 34:

alicui spiritus,

id. 7, 40.—

To put in the place of another person or thing, to substitute (rare but class.).

In gen.: te rogo, in Hirtii locum me subdas, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 21, 7:

quos in eorum locum subditos domi suae reservavit?

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 5, § 12:

judicem in meum locum,

id. Dom. 32, 85; Plin. Pan. 25, 3; cf. Quint. 3, 6, 54:

immutavit et subdidit verbum ei verbo, quod omiserat, finitimum,

Gell. 1, 4, 8.—

In partic., to put something spurious in the place of another person or thing; to substitute falsely; to forge, counterfeit, make up (not in Cic.;

syn. substituo): subditum se suspicatur,

that he is a spurious child, a changeling, Ter. Heaut. 5, 3, 12:

me subditum et pellice genitum appellant,

Liv. 40, 9:

partum,

Dig. 4, 10, 19; cf.:

liberos tamquam subditos summovere familia,

Quint. 1, 4, 3 Zumpt N. cr. (al. subditicios):

abolendo rumori Nero subdidit reos,

Tac. A. 15, 44:

reum,

id. ib. 1, 6; cf.:

subditis, qui accusatorum nomina sustinerent,

suborned, id. ib. 4, 59:

testamentum,

id. ib. 14, 40:

crimina majestatis,

id. ib. 3, 67:

rumorem,

id. ib. 6, 36 et saep.