villam colli Su

1) класть наверх, положить ( manum O); возлагать ( capiti decus L)

2) ставить ( statuam Jano Su); воздвигать ( turrim congestis pilis Su); располагать наверху ( villam colli Su)

3) ставить во главе (aliquem L, Pt, Hier)

4) ставить на первом плане, ставить выше, предпочитать (alicui rei aliquid Sen)

5) ставить на втором плане, ставить ниже (aliquid alicui rei Q, Col)

sŭper-pōno, pŏsŭi, pŏsĭtum, 3, v. a., to put or place over or upon, to set up (perh. not ante-Aug.).

Lit.

In gen.:

superpositum capiti decus (i. e. pileus),

Liv. 1, 34:

altissimam turrim congestis pilis,

Suet. Claud. 20 fin.:

statuam marmoream Jano,

id. Aug. 31:

villam profluenti,

Col. 1, 5, 4; cf.:

villa colli superposita,

Suet. Galb. 4:

ut omnis materia jugo superponatur,

Col. 4, 25, 4:

vitis, quae uno jugo superponatur,

id. 5, 5, 15:

aegra superpositā membra fovere manu,

Ov. H. 21, 190: desertis Africae duas Aethiopias superponunt, place above or beyond, Plin. 5, 8, 8, § 43; cf.:

Galatia superposita,

situated above, id. 5, 32, 42, § 146: hominis collo superpositum, Capitol. Max. et Balb. 9; Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 27.— With abl.:

arx asperi montis interruptā planitie superposita,

Amm. 24, 2, 12. —

In partic., medic. t. t., to lay on, apply a plaster or the like, Cels. 5, 26, 35; Plin. 29, 6, 38, § 126; 32, 7, 24, § 75:

emplastrum loco dolenti,

Scrib. Comp. 206.—

Trop., to place over or above.

To place or set over, of official station, etc.:

Perperna in maritimam regionem superpositus,

Liv. Fragm. Libr. 91:

ut unus de presbyteris superponeretur ceteris,

Hier. in Ep. ad Tit. 1, 5:

puer super hoc positus officium,

Petr. 56:

T. FLAVIO SVPERPOSITO MEDICORVM,

president, Inscr. Grut. 581, 7.—

To place before, prefer: Stoici volunt superponere [p. 1809] huic etiam aliud genus magis principale, Sen. Ep. 58, 13. —

To place after, postpone:

(ante gesta) levioribus superponenda sunt,

Quint. 9, 4, 25:

summum est enim... huic deinde aliquid superpositum,

id. 8, 4, 6; Col. 3, 10, 7.