(adjective) : rĕ-sŭpīnus, a, um
* Bent back or backwards, lying on one's back or with the face upwards, supine (not in Cic.).
* Lit.: resupinum in caelo contueri, i. e. lying onone'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.
* 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.
* 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.