sustollo

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sustollo: ĕre,
I v.a. [subs for sub (v. sub, III.), and tollo, to lift or take up, to raise up, raise (ante- and post-class.; cf.: erigo, effero).
I In gen.: amiculum, Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 117; id. Poen. 1, 2, 136: Graecae sunt hae columnae, sustolli solent, i. e. to be set upon a high pedestal, id. ib. 5, 3, 49: torvos ad aethera vultus, Ov. M. 13, 542: (navem) levi sustollit machina nisu, Lucr. 4, 906: vela, Cat. 64, 210; 64, 235: papulas alte, Ser. Samm. 38, 716. —
II In partic. *
   A To build, erect: novum opus in quālibet civitate, Cod. Th. 15, 1, 28. —
   B To take away, remove, destroy: erilem filiam, Plaut. Cist. 2, 3, 8: has aedes totas, id. Mil. 2, 3, 39: sustolli ab his locis, Arn. 2, 60.