(verb) : sŭper-pōno, pŏsŭi, pŏsĭtum, 3
* To put or place over or upon, to set up (perh. not ante-Aug.).
* Lit.
* In gen.: superpositum capiti decus (i. e. pileus),Liv. 1, 34: altissimam turrim congestis pilis,Suet. Claud. 20 fin.: statuam marmoream Jano,id. Aug. 31: villam profluenti,Col. 1, 5, 4; cf.: villa colli superposita,Suet. Galb. 4: ut omnis materia jugo superponatur,Col. 4, 25, 4: vitis, quae uno jugo superponatur,id. 5, 5, 15: aegra superpositā membra fovere manu,Ov. H. 21, 190: desertis Africae duas Aethiopias superponunt, place above or beyond, Plin. 5, 8, 8, § 43; cf.: Galatia superposita,situated above,id. 5, 32, 42, § 146: hominis collo superpositum, Capitol. Max. et Balb. 9; Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 27.— With abl.: arx asperi montis interruptā planitie superposita,Amm. 24, 2, 12.
* Trop., to place over or above.
* To place or set over, of official station, etc.: Perperna in maritimam regionem superpositus,Liv. Fragm. Libr. 91: ut unus de presbyteris superponeretur ceteris,Hier. in Ep. ad Tit. 1, 5: puer super hoc positus officium,Petr. 56: T. FLAVIO SVPERPOSITO MEDICORVM,president,Inscr. Grut. 581, 7.—*
* To place before, prefer: Stoici volunt superponere huic etiam aliud genus magis principale, Sen. Ep. 58, 13.
* To place after, postpone: (ante gesta) levioribus superponenda sunt,Quint. 9, 4, 25: summum est enim ... huic deinde aliquid superpositum,id. 8, 4, 6; Col. 3, 10, 7.