(verb) : suscĭto, āvi, ātum, 1, sub-cito
* To lift up, raise, elevate (syn.: erigo, elevo).
* In gen. (only poet.): terga (i. e. humum),to throw up, cast up,Verg. G. 1, 97: undas (Nilus),Luc. 10, 225: aura lintea Suscitat,swells, fills,Ov. H. 5, 54: aures,to erect, prick up,Val. Fl. 2, 125: vulturium a cano capite,to scare away,Cat. 68, 124: pulverem pede,Val. Max. 9, 3, ext. 3.
* In partic.
* To build, erect (ante- and postclass.): delubra deum,Lucr. 5, 1166: basilicas et forum in tantam altitudinem, ut, etc.,Eum. Pan. ad Const. 22 med.
* Of persons sleeping, at rest, or quiet; of things at rest, etc., to stir up, rouse up, arouse, awaken; to set in motion, encourage, incite (the predom. signif. of the word; syn. expergefacio): aliquem e somno,Cic. Tusc. 4, 19, 44: aliquem e molli quiete,Cat. 80, 4: quae me somno suscitet,Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 96: hic deposuit caput et dormit: suscita,id. Most. 2, 1, 35: se ad suom officium,id. Rud. 4, 2, 17: in arma viros,Verg. A. 9, 463; 2, 618: te ab tuis subselliis contra te testem suscitabo,Cic. Rosc. Com. 13, 37: tacentem musam,Hor. C. 2, 10, 19: oscinem corvum prece suscitabo Solis ab ortu,will invoke,id. ib. 3, 27, 11: ut te (aegrotum) Suscitet,would restore, revive,id. S. 1, 1, 83: mortuos,to awaken, resuscitate,Aug. Serm. Verb. Dom. 44, 2; 44, 1; 44, 3 sq.: Cupido Suscitat affixam maestis Aeetida curis,Val. Fl. 8, 233: Vesbius attonitas acer cum suscitat urbes,startles,id. 3, 209: si te suscitat Oceanus,Mart. 6, 9, 2: quā te suscitat,id. 3, 95, 10; 5, 36, 5: suscitatus,raised from the dead,Aug. Serm. Verb. Dom. 44.
* Of things concr. or abstr.: cinerem et sopitos suscitat ignes,stirs up, rekindles,Verg. A. 5, 743: ignes hesternos,Ov. M. 8, 642; cf.: exstinctos ignes (i. e. amoris),id. A. A. 3, 597: crepitum,to raise, excite,Prop. 2, 4, 14: clamores,Phaedr. 5, 5, 28: fictas sententias, to bring forth, produce, invent, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 40, 88 (Trag. v. 447 Vahl.): bellum civile, Brut. et Cass. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 3, 3: vim suscitat ira,Verg. A. 5, 454: saevam caedem,id. ib. 12, 498: sensus tuos,Sen. Agam. 789: ne sopitam memoriam malorum oratio mea suscitet,Nazar. Pan. ad Const. 8: ensis ad tympana,Claud. in Eutr. 2, 281.