(verb) : sub-jăcĕo, cŭi, 2
* To lie under or near any thing (post-Aug.).
* Lit.: feles coeunt mare stante, feminā subjacente,Plin. 10, 63, 83, § 174: frumentum si tegulis subjaceat,id. 18, 30, 73, § 301: fenestris subjacet vestibulum villae,Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 15; cf.: subjacentes petrae,Curt. 5, 3, 18: campus aedificio subjacet,adjoins, lies close to the building,Col. 1, 2, 3; so, monti,Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 2: fenestra subjacens,id. ib. 2, 17, 6.
* Trop., to be under, subject to any thing; to belong to or be connected with, etc.: causa, cui plurimae subjacent lites,Quint. 3, 6, 27; cf. id. 3, 6, 41: subjacet utilitati etiam illa defensio,id. 7, 4, 12: quantitas plerumque eidem (qualitati) subjacet,id. 7, 4, 41: quaestiones velut subjacentes,id. 3, 6, 91 et saep.: vita, quae multis casibus subjacet,App. M. 11, p. 266, 10: inopes divitum impotentiae subjacentes,id. Dogm. Plat. 2, p. 28, 31: viliores personae capitali supplicio subjaceant,Cod. Just. 4, 40, 4: delicto,Vulg. Lev. 5, 3: ditioni regis,id. Esth. 9, 16: ex materiā subjacente (deo) ac paratā,within his power,Lact. 2, 8.