(verb) : suf-fulcĭo (subf-), fulsi, fultum, 4
* To prop underneath, to underprop, prop up, support (mostly ante- and post-class.; not in Cic.).
* Lit.: porticus paribus suffulta columnis,Lucr. 4, 427: maxillas et cervices pulvillis,App. M. 10, p. 248, 26: lectica Syris suffulta,i. e. borne, carried,Mart. 9, 3, 11.—Absol.: nisi suffulcis firmiter, Non potes subsistere,Plaut. Ep. 1, 1, 77: vestis imum tegat suffulta latus,lying on it,Sen. Troad. 105.
* Trop.: propterea capitur cibus, ut suffulciat artus,Lucr. 4, 868; so, artus,id. 4, 951. (In Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 54, the correct read. is suffigit; v. Ritschl ad h. l.)