supported himself

dē-tĭnĕo, tĭnŭi, tentum, 2, v. a. [teneo], to hold off, keep back, detain.

Lit. (class.):

nos de nostro negotio,

Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 190:

aliquem ab aliquo incepto studioque,

Sall. C. 4, 2:

aliquem apud villam,

Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 13: so,

aliquem,

id. Men. 4, 2, 22; Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 49; Lentul. ap. Cic. Fam. 12, 5, 5 (with demorari), Caes. B. C. 2, 17, 3 Oud. N. cr.; Liv. 4, 55 (opp. concire); Verg. A. 2, 788; Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 5:

me grata compede Myrtale,

id. Od. 1, 33, 14; Ov. M. 13, 301 et saep.:

novissimos proelio,

Caes. B. C. 3, 75, 4; cf.:

Hannibalem quam acerrimo bello,

Liv. 27, 12:

se miserandis alimentis detinuerat,

had supported himself, Tac. A. 6, 23:

naves tempestatibus detinebantur,

Caes. B. G. 3, 12 fin.; cf.:

rates voce canora,

Ov. A. A. 3, 311:

iter iratae anguis (cantus),

Tib. 1, 8, 20:

illum ne discederet,

Vulg. Luc. 4, 42.—

Trop.

In gen. ( poet.), to delay, i. e. lengthen:

euntem multa loquendo Detinuit sermone diem,

Ov. M. 1, 683; cf.

tempus,

id. Pont. 4, 10, 67.—

Esp., to occupy, engage (also class.):

in alienis negotiis detineri,

Cic. Inv. 2, 45, 132; cf. Quint. 10, 5, 17:

in contumelia,

Tac. A. 13, 36 fin.:

in admiratione sui,

Suet. Ner. 52:

manus in lyricis modis,

Ov. F. 5, 386:

mentes hominum circa alia,

Plin. H. N. 14 prooem. §

4: animum studiis,

Ov. Tr. 5, 7, 39:

oculos (mea poëmata),

id. ib. 2, 520; cf. Quint. 9, 2, 63:

animos in timore,

Hirt. B. Afr. 72, 3.—

To hold in the mind, know:

veritatem Dei in injustitia,

Vulg. Rom. 1, 18.

sustento, āvi, ātum, 1, v. freq. a. [sustineo], to hold up or upriqht, to uphold, support, prop, sustain (syn. sustineo).

Lit. (only poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

multos per annos Sustentata ruet moles et machina mundi,

Lucr. 5, 96: Hercule quondam [p. 1822] 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.—

To bear, wear:

catenas,

Vop. Aur. 34.—

Trop., to keep up, uphold, sustain, maintain, support, bear, uplift, preserve (class. and freq.).

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,

upholds, id. ib. 11, 224:

Arminius manu, voce, vulnere sustentabat pugnam,

kept up, maintained, Tac. A. 2, 17:

aciem,

id. ib. 1, 65 fin.; id. H. 2, 15.—

In partic.

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. —

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. —

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, 14 fin.—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. —

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.

artus (not arctus), a, um, adj. [v. arma], prop. fitted; hence,

Lit., close, strait, narrow, confined, short, brief:

exierunt regionibus artis,

Lucr. 6, 120:

claustra,

id. 1, 70; so id. 3, 808:

nec tamen haec ita sunt arta et astricta, ut ea laxare nequeamus,

Cic. Or. 65, 220:

artioribus apud populum Romanum laqueis tenebitur,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 5:

nullum vinculum ad astringendam fidem jure jurando majores artius esse voluerunt,

id. Off. 3, 31, 111:

compages,

Verg. A. 1, 293:

nexus,

Ov. M. 6, 242:

arto stipata theatro,

pressed together in a contracted theatre, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 60:

toga,

a narrow toga without folds, id. ib. 1, 18, 30 (cf. exigua toga, id. ib. 1, 19, 13):

nimis arta convivia,

i. e. with too many guests, who are therefore compelled to sit close together, id. ib. 1, 5, 29 et saep.—Hence, subst.: artum, i, n., a narrow place or passage:

ventus cum confercit, franguntur in arto montes nimborum,

Lucr. 6, 158 Lachm.:

multiplicatis in arto ordinibus,

Liv. 2, 50; so id. 34, 15:

nec desilies imitator in artum,

nor, by imitating, leap into a close place, Hor. A. P. 134.—

Trop., strict, severe, scanty, brief, small:

sponte suā cecidit sub leges artaque jura,

subjected himself to the severity of the laws, Lucr. 5, 1147:

Additae leges artae et ideo superbae quasque etc.,

Plin. 16, 4, 5, § 12:

vincula amoris artissima,

Cic. Att. 6, 2: artior somnus, a sounder or deeper sleep, id. Rep. 6, 10:

arti commeatus,

Liv. 2, 34; Tac. H. 4, 26; cf.:

in arto commeatus,

id. ib. 3, 13:

artissimae tenebrae,

very thick darkness, Suet. Ner. 46 (for which, in class. Lat., densus, v. Bremi ad h. l., and cf. densus) al.—So, colligere in artum, to compress, abridge:

quae (volumina) a me collecta in artum,

Plin. 8, 16, 17, § 44.—Of hope, small, scanty:

spes artior aquae manantis,

Col. 1, 5, 2: ne spem sibi ponat in arto, diminish hope, expectation, [p. 169] Ov. M. 9, 683:

quia plus quam unum ex patriciis creari non licebat, artior petitio quattuor petentibus erat,

i. e. was harder, had less ground of hope, Liv. 39, 32; and of circumstances in life, etc., straitened, distressing, wretched, needy, indigent (so in and after the Aug. per. for the class. angustus):

rebus in artis,

Ov. P. 3, 2, 25:

artas res nuntiaret,

Tac. H. 3, 69:

tam artis afflictisque rebus,

Flor. 2, 6, 31; so Sil. 7, 310:

fortuna artior expensis,

Stat. S. 5, 3, 117:

ne in arto res esset,

Liv. 26, 17.— Adv.: artē (not arcte), closely, close, fast, firmly.

Lit.:

arte (manus) conliga,

Plaut. Ep. 5, 2, 29:

boves arte ad stipites religare,

Col. 6, 2, 5:

arte continere aliquid,

Caes. B. G. 7, 23:

aciem arte statuere,

Sall. J. 52, 6:

arte accubare,

Plaut. Stich. 4, 2, 39.— Comp.:

calorem artius continere,

Cic. N. D. 2, 9, 25:

artius astringi,

Hor. Epod. 15, 5:

signa artius conlocare,

Sall. C. 59, 2:

artius ire,

Curt. 4, 13, 34:

artius pressiusque conflictari,

Gell. 10, 6.— Sup.:

milites quam artissime ire jubet,

Sall. J. 68, 4:

artissime plantas serere,

Plin. 12, 3, 7, § 16.—

Trop.:

arte contenteque aliquem habere,

Plaut. As. 1, 1, 63; id. Merc. prol. 64:

arte et graviter dormire,

soundly, Cic. Div. 1, 28, 59:

arte appellare aliquem,

briefly, by shortening his name, Ov. P. 4, 12, 10:

artius adstringere rationem,

Cic. Fat. 14, 32:

abstinentiam artissime constringere,

Val. Max. 2, 2, 8.—

Transf.:

arte diligere aliquem,

strongly, deeply, Plin. Ep. 6, 8; so also id. ib. 2, 13.

artus, ūs, m. [id.], mostly plur. (artua, n., Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 102; quoted in Non. p. 191, 12.—Hence, dat. acc. to Vel. Long. p. 2229 P. and Ter. Scaur. p. 2260 P. artibus; yet the ancient grammarians give their decision in favor of artubus, which form is also supported by the best MSS.; cf. arcus.—The singular is found only in Luc. 6, 754; Val. Fl. 4, 310, and Prisc. p. 1219 P.).

A.. Lit., a joint:

molles commissurae et artus (digitorum),

Cic. N. D. 2, 60, 150:

suffraginum artus,

Plin. 11, 45, 101, § 248:

elapsi in pravum artus,

Tac. H. 4, 81:

dolor artuum,

gout, Cic. Brut. 60, 217.—Sometimes connected with membra, Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 102:

copia materiaï Cogitur interdum flecti per membra, per artus,

in every joint and limb, Lucr. 2, 282; 3, 703 al.; Suet. Calig. 28; cf.

Baumg.-Crus., Clavis ad Suet.: cernere laceros artus, truncata membra,

Plin. Pan. 52, 5.—

Trop., the muscular strength in the joints; hence, in gen., strength, power: Epicharmeion illud teneto;

nervos atque artus esse sapientiae, non temere credere,

Q. Cic. Petit. Cons. 10.—More freq.,

The limbs in gen. (very freq., esp. in the poets; in Lucr. about sixty times): cum tremulis anus attulit artubus lumen, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 40 (Ann. v. 36 Vahl.); so Lucr. 3, 7; cf. id. 3, 488; 6, 1189:

artubus omnibus contremiscam,

Cic. de Or. 1, 26, 121: dum nati (sc. Absyrti) dissupatos artus captaret parens, vet. poet. ap. Cic. N. D. 3, 26, 67:

copia concita per artus Omnīs,

Lucr. 2, 267:

moribundi artus,

id. 3, 129 al.:

rogumque parari Vidit et arsuros supremis ignibus artus, etc.,

Ov. M. 2, 620 al.:

salsusque per artus Sudor iit,

Verg. A. 2, 173; 1, 173 al.:

veste strictā et singulos artus exprimente,

and showing each limb, Tac. G. 17:

artus in frusta concident,

Vulg. Lev. 1, 6; 8, 20;

ib. Job, 16, 8.—Of plants: stat per se vitis sine ullo pedamento, artus suos in se colligens,

its tendrils, Plin. 14, 1, 3, § 13, where Jahn reads arcus.

artus (not arctus), a, um, adj. [v. arma], prop. fitted; hence,

Lit., close, strait, narrow, confined, short, brief:

exierunt regionibus artis,

Lucr. 6, 120:

claustra,

id. 1, 70; so id. 3, 808:

nec tamen haec ita sunt arta et astricta, ut ea laxare nequeamus,

Cic. Or. 65, 220:

artioribus apud populum Romanum laqueis tenebitur,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 5:

nullum vinculum ad astringendam fidem jure jurando majores artius esse voluerunt,

id. Off. 3, 31, 111:

compages,

Verg. A. 1, 293:

nexus,

Ov. M. 6, 242:

arto stipata theatro,

pressed together in a contracted theatre, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 60:

toga,

a narrow toga without folds, id. ib. 1, 18, 30 (cf. exigua toga, id. ib. 1, 19, 13):

nimis arta convivia,

i. e. with too many guests, who are therefore compelled to sit close together, id. ib. 1, 5, 29 et saep.—Hence, subst.: artum, i, n., a narrow place or passage:

ventus cum confercit, franguntur in arto montes nimborum,

Lucr. 6, 158 Lachm.:

multiplicatis in arto ordinibus,

Liv. 2, 50; so id. 34, 15:

nec desilies imitator in artum,

nor, by imitating, leap into a close place, Hor. A. P. 134.—

Trop., strict, severe, scanty, brief, small:

sponte suā cecidit sub leges artaque jura,

subjected himself to the severity of the laws, Lucr. 5, 1147:

Additae leges artae et ideo superbae quasque etc.,

Plin. 16, 4, 5, § 12:

vincula amoris artissima,

Cic. Att. 6, 2: artior somnus, a sounder or deeper sleep, id. Rep. 6, 10:

arti commeatus,

Liv. 2, 34; Tac. H. 4, 26; cf.:

in arto commeatus,

id. ib. 3, 13:

artissimae tenebrae,

very thick darkness, Suet. Ner. 46 (for which, in class. Lat., densus, v. Bremi ad h. l., and cf. densus) al.—So, colligere in artum, to compress, abridge:

quae (volumina) a me collecta in artum,

Plin. 8, 16, 17, § 44.—Of hope, small, scanty:

spes artior aquae manantis,

Col. 1, 5, 2: ne spem sibi ponat in arto, diminish hope, expectation, [p. 169] Ov. M. 9, 683:

quia plus quam unum ex patriciis creari non licebat, artior petitio quattuor petentibus erat,

i. e. was harder, had less ground of hope, Liv. 39, 32; and of circumstances in life, etc., straitened, distressing, wretched, needy, indigent (so in and after the Aug. per. for the class. angustus):

rebus in artis,

Ov. P. 3, 2, 25:

artas res nuntiaret,

Tac. H. 3, 69:

tam artis afflictisque rebus,

Flor. 2, 6, 31; so Sil. 7, 310:

fortuna artior expensis,

Stat. S. 5, 3, 117:

ne in arto res esset,

Liv. 26, 17.— Adv.: artē (not arcte), closely, close, fast, firmly.

Lit.:

arte (manus) conliga,

Plaut. Ep. 5, 2, 29:

boves arte ad stipites religare,

Col. 6, 2, 5:

arte continere aliquid,

Caes. B. G. 7, 23:

aciem arte statuere,

Sall. J. 52, 6:

arte accubare,

Plaut. Stich. 4, 2, 39.— Comp.:

calorem artius continere,

Cic. N. D. 2, 9, 25:

artius astringi,

Hor. Epod. 15, 5:

signa artius conlocare,

Sall. C. 59, 2:

artius ire,

Curt. 4, 13, 34:

artius pressiusque conflictari,

Gell. 10, 6.— Sup.:

milites quam artissime ire jubet,

Sall. J. 68, 4:

artissime plantas serere,

Plin. 12, 3, 7, § 16.—

Trop.:

arte contenteque aliquem habere,

Plaut. As. 1, 1, 63; id. Merc. prol. 64:

arte et graviter dormire,

soundly, Cic. Div. 1, 28, 59:

arte appellare aliquem,

briefly, by shortening his name, Ov. P. 4, 12, 10:

artius adstringere rationem,

Cic. Fat. 14, 32:

abstinentiam artissime constringere,

Val. Max. 2, 2, 8.—

Transf.:

arte diligere aliquem,

strongly, deeply, Plin. Ep. 6, 8; so also id. ib. 2, 13.

artus, ūs, m. [id.], mostly plur. (artua, n., Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 102; quoted in Non. p. 191, 12.—Hence, dat. acc. to Vel. Long. p. 2229 P. and Ter. Scaur. p. 2260 P. artibus; yet the ancient grammarians give their decision in favor of artubus, which form is also supported by the best MSS.; cf. arcus.—The singular is found only in Luc. 6, 754; Val. Fl. 4, 310, and Prisc. p. 1219 P.).

A.. Lit., a joint:

molles commissurae et artus (digitorum),

Cic. N. D. 2, 60, 150:

suffraginum artus,

Plin. 11, 45, 101, § 248:

elapsi in pravum artus,

Tac. H. 4, 81:

dolor artuum,

gout, Cic. Brut. 60, 217.—Sometimes connected with membra, Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 102:

copia materiaï Cogitur interdum flecti per membra, per artus,

in every joint and limb, Lucr. 2, 282; 3, 703 al.; Suet. Calig. 28; cf.

Baumg.-Crus., Clavis ad Suet.: cernere laceros artus, truncata membra,

Plin. Pan. 52, 5.—

Trop., the muscular strength in the joints; hence, in gen., strength, power: Epicharmeion illud teneto;

nervos atque artus esse sapientiae, non temere credere,

Q. Cic. Petit. Cons. 10.—More freq.,

The limbs in gen. (very freq., esp. in the poets; in Lucr. about sixty times): cum tremulis anus attulit artubus lumen, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 40 (Ann. v. 36 Vahl.); so Lucr. 3, 7; cf. id. 3, 488; 6, 1189:

artubus omnibus contremiscam,

Cic. de Or. 1, 26, 121: dum nati (sc. Absyrti) dissupatos artus captaret parens, vet. poet. ap. Cic. N. D. 3, 26, 67:

copia concita per artus Omnīs,

Lucr. 2, 267:

moribundi artus,

id. 3, 129 al.:

rogumque parari Vidit et arsuros supremis ignibus artus, etc.,

Ov. M. 2, 620 al.:

salsusque per artus Sudor iit,

Verg. A. 2, 173; 1, 173 al.:

veste strictā et singulos artus exprimente,

and showing each limb, Tac. G. 17:

artus in frusta concident,

Vulg. Lev. 1, 6; 8, 20;

ib. Job, 16, 8.—Of plants: stat per se vitis sine ullo pedamento, artus suos in se colligens,

its tendrils, Plin. 14, 1, 3, § 13, where Jahn reads arcus.