suffero

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suf-fĕro: (subf-), sustŭli, sublātum, sufferre, v. a.
I To carry under, to put or lay under (very rare; syn. subicio): corium, Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 33: tergum, id. Fragm. ap. Non. 397, 1.—
II In gen.
   A To offer, proffer: neque mater potest sufferre lac, Varr. R. R. 2, 4, 19.—T. t. in jurid. Lat.: litis aestimationem, to tender, Dig. 30, 1, 69 fin.; 21, 2, 21.—
   B To hold up, bear, support, sustain (very rare; syn. sustineo): an axis eum (mundum) sustineat an ipse se potius vi propriā sufferat, Arn. 2, 83: comitiali morbo vexatus, ut stare, colligere semet ac sufferre vix posset, hold himself upright, Suet. Calig. 50.—
   2    Trop., to take upon one's self, undergo, bear, endure, suffer an evil or grievance (class.; syn.: patior, tolero): plagas, Plaut. As. 3, 2, 11: vulnera, Lucr. 5, 1304: poenas, Att. ap. Non. 396, 33: poenam sui sceleris, Cic. Cat. 2, 13, 28: at Apollodorus poenas sustulit, id. N. D. 3, 33, 82: imperii poenas sufferre, id. Font. 21, 49: quam multam si sufferre voluissent, id. Caecin. 33, 98; cf.: pro alicujus peccatis supplicium sufferre, Ter. And. 5, 3, 17; in Plautus (like dare poenas alicui) with dat.: deinde illi actutum sufferet suos servos poenas Sosia, Plaut. Am. 3, 4, 19: ut vobis victi Poeni poenas sufferant, id. Cist. 1, 3, 54: sumptus, Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 44: laborem, solem, sitim, Plaut. Merc. 5, 2, 20: labores, Varr. R. R. 2, 8, 5: (vites) valenter sufferunt ventos et imbres, Col. 3, 2, 15: nisi hoc pejus sit, haec sufferre et perpeti, Sulp. in Cic. Fam. 4, 5, 3: nec claustra nec ipsi Custodes sufferre valent, Verg. A. 2, 492: quod (iter) superest, sufferte pedes, Prop. 3 (4), 21, 21 et saep.—Absol.: Syre, vix suffero, Ter. Heaut. 2, 4, 20.—Ellipt.: si magis me instabunt, ad praetorem sufferam (sc. me rapi), Plaut. Curc. 3, 6.