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sŭbŏles (less correctly sŏbŏles), is, f. [sub- 2. oleo, olesco], a sprout, shoot, offshoot, twig, spray:

suboles ab olescendo, id est crescendo, ut adulescentes quoque et adultae et indoles dicitur,

Fest. p. 309 Müll.

Lit. (very rare;

syn. surculus), of plants: ulmum serere ex subolibus,

Col. 5, 6, 2:

caepa, quae non habuit suboles adhaerentes,

id. 12, 10; Plin. 17, 10, 12, § 65 et saep. —Of the hair: ex subolibus parvuli (capilli) demittebantur, Varr. ap. Non. 456, 7:

cum capillus frequenti subole cumulat verticem,

App. M. 2, p. 218, 36.—

Transf., of men and beasts, offspring, progeny, posterity, issue, stock, race, lineage (class.; mostly poet.; cf. Cic. de Or. 3, 38, 153;

syn.: proles, progenies): censores populi aevitates, suboles, familias pecuniasque censento,

Cic. Leg. 3, 3, 7:

propagatio et suboles,

id. Off. 1, 17, 54; Lucr. 4, 1232; cf.:

(rex Superum) subolem priori Dissimilem populo promittit origine mirā,

Ov. M. 1, 251:

cara deum suboles, magnum Jovis incrementum,

Verg. E. 4, 49:

hem subolem sis vide!

Plaut. Ps. 3, 2, 102:

suboles juventutis,

Cic. Phil. 2, 22, 54: robur et suboles militum interiit, Pollio ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 33, 1:

milites, favete nomini Scipionum, suboli imperatorum vestrorum,

Liv. 26, 41, 22:

fortunati patris matura suboles,

id. 40, 6:

stirpis,

id. 39, 24:

si qua mihi de te suscepta fuisset Ante fugam suboles,

Verg. A. 4, 328:

diva (Lucina), producas subolem,

Hor. C. S. 17:

Romae suboles,

the race of Rome, id. C. 4, 3, 14:

Archytae,

Prop. 4 (5), 1, 77:

Sarmatae, Medorum suboles,

Plin. 6, 7, 7, § 19:

haec suboles nomen habuit Epigoni,

Just. 12, 4, 11:

stirpem regiae subolis delere,

id. 16, 1, 15. —Of the gods:

per suboles subolum multiplicata semper innumerabilitas ampliatur,

Arn. 3, 9 Hildebr.—Of beasts:

lascivi suboles gregis,

Hor. C. 3, 13, 8:

capellae,

Col. 7, 6, 8:

armentorum,

Plin. 7, 2, 2, § 31.