(verb) : sub-vĕnĭo, vēni, ventum, 4 (old
* Fut. subvenibo, Plaut. Men. 5, 7, 20), , to come up or advance to one's assistance (the figure taken from the advance of a military reserve; v. subsidium), to come to one's assistance, to aid, assist, relieve, succor; to obviate, remedy, heal, cure a disease, an evil, etc. (freq. and class.; syn.: adjuvo, succurro, sublevo).
* With dat. (so most freq.): quibus (equitibus) celeriter subveniunt levis armaturae pedites,Hirt. B. G. 8, 19: Lucanius circumvento filio subvenit,Caes. B. G. 5, 35: Varenus illi laboranti subvenit,id. ib. 5, 44: Apollo quaeso, subveni mihi atque adjuva,Plaut. Aul. 2, 8, 24: subveni patriae, opitulare collegae,Cic. Fam. 10, 10, 2: subvenire et opitulari patriae,id. Off. 1, 43, 154: civitati,Caes. B. G. 7, 32; id. B. C. 2, 4: subvenisti homini jam perdito,Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 17, § 37: pauci subveniendum Adherbali censebant,Sall. J. 15, 3: vestri auxilii est, judices, hujus innocentiae subvenire,Cic. Clu. 1, 4: saluti suae acrioribus remediis,id. ib. 24, 67: vitae alicujus,Caes. B. G. 7, 50: stabilitati dentium,Plin. 23, 3, 37, § 74 et saep.: gravedini omni ratione,Cic. Att. 16, 14, 4: morbo,Plin. 22, 25, 61, § 129; 32, 9, 37, § 112: huic meae sollicitudini,Cic. Fam. 2, 6, 4: his tam periculosis rebus,id. Rep. 1, 19, 31.—Esp., of the praetor, to render official, judicial aid: aequissimum erit praetorem ei subvenire,Dig. 47, 10, 7, § 2.—Impers. pass.: subveniri generi humano,Cic. Off. 2, 4, 13: D. Bruti operā, etc. ... provinciae Galliae esse subventum,id. Phil. 5, 13, 36: huic quoque rei subventum est maxime a nobis,id. Att. 1, 17, 9: nisi celeriter sociis foret subventum,Hirt. B. Afr. 26, 4.
* In gen., to come up, come (very rare).
* Lit.: aliud in eo (sale) mirabile est, quod tantundem nocte subvenit, quantum die auferas, Plin. 31, 7, 39, § 74.
* Trop.
* Ut quaeque vox digna animadverti subvenerat, memoriae mandabamus, came to mind, occurred to us, Gell. 19, 7, 2.
* To come to one's mind, occur to him; with inf., App. M. 3, p. 131, 37.