(verb) : sub-stĭtŭo, ŭi, ūtum, 3, statuo.
* To set, put, place, or lay under, to set or place next to any thing (so rare and mostly post - Aug.).
* Lit.: lapides plantae,Pall. Mart. 10, 22: post elephantos armaturas leves,Hirt. B. Afr. 59, 3.
* To put instead or in the place of another, to substitute (class.; syn.: suppono, subrogo).
* In gen.: in eorum locum cives Romanos,Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 28, § 72: pontificem in locum Scipionis,Suet. Tib. 4; Nep. Alcib. 7, 3; cf. Col. 5, 6, 1: nunc pro te Verrem substituisti alterum civitati,Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 69, § 161; cf. Liv. 38, 42: aliam tabulam pro eā,Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 91: substituta fili persona,id. 18, 3, 4, § 17: philosophiam nobis pro rei publicae procuratione, Cic. Div. 2, 2, 7.—With dat.: consulem alicui,Vell. 2, 58, 3; cf. Suet. Caes. 76: equites Siculis,Liv. 29, 1: alia semina demortuis,Col. 4, 17, 3: libros de oratore his,Quint. 3, 6, 60: fortunam culpae,id. 7, 4, 15: personas,id. 3, 8, 54: defuncto altero e consulibus, neminem substituit,Suet. Ner. 15: substituitur mutua accusatio,Quint. 7, 2, 9.—With in and abl. (late Lat.): in locis suis secunda,Amm. 15, 5, 23.
* In partic., in jurid. lang.: substituere heredem (alicui), to make second or alternate heir, in case the first should die: heredes aut instituti dicuntur aut substituti: instituti primo gradu, substituti secundo vel tertio,Dig. 28, 6, 1 sq.: heredes invicem,Suet. Tib. 76; so, heredem (alicui),id. Galb. 9; Quint. 7, 6, 9 al.—So with ellipsis of heredem: inpuberi filio,Dig. 28, 6, 1 sq.