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|lshtext=<b>sublīmis</b>: e (collat. form sublīmus, a, um: ex [[sublimo]] vertice, Cic. poët. Tusc. 2, 7, 19; Enn. ap. Non. 169; Att. and Sall. ib. 489, 8 sq.; Lucr. 1, 340), adj. etym. dub.; perh. sub-[[limen]], up to the [[lintel]]; cf. [[sublimen]] (sublimem est in altitudinem elatum, Fest. p. 306 Müll.),<br /><b>I</b> uplifted, [[high]], [[lofty]], [[exalted]], [[elevated]] ([[mostly]] [[poet]]. and in postAug. [[prose]]; not in Cic. or Cæs.; syn.: [[editus]], [[arduus]], [[celsus]], [[altus]]).<br /><b>I</b> Lit.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> In gen., [[high]], [[lofty]]: hic [[vertex]] nobis [[semper]] [[sublimis]], Verg. G. 1, 242; cf. Hor. C. 1, 1, 36: montis [[cacumen]], Ov. M. 1, 666: [[tectum]], id. ib. 14, 752: [[columna]], id. ib. 2, 1: [[atrium]], Hor. C. 3, 1, 46: [[arcus]] (Iridis), Plin. 2, 59, 60, § 151: portae, Verg. A. 12, 133: [[nemus]], Luc. 3, 86 et saep.: os, directed upwards (opp. to [[pronus]]), Ov. M. 1, 85; cf. id. ib. 15, 673; Hor. A. P. 457: [[flagellum]], uplifted, id. C. 3, 26, 11: [[armenta]], Col. 3, 8: [[currus]], Liv. 28, 9.—Comp.: [[quanto]] sublimior [[Atlas]] Omnibus in Libyā [[sit]] montibus, Juv. 11, 24.—Sup.: triumphans in [[illo]] sublimissimo curru, Tert. Apol. 33.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Esp., borne [[aloft]], uplifted, [[elevated]], [[raised]]: rapite sublimem [[foras]], Plaut. Mil. 5, 1: sublimem aliquem rapere (arripere, auferre, ferre), id. As. 5, 2, 18; id. Men. 5, 7, 3; 5, 7, 6; 5, 7, 13; 5, 8, 3; Ter. And. 5, 2, 20; id. Ad. 3, 2, 18; Verg. A. 5, 255; 11, 722 (in all these passages others [[read]] [[sublimen]], q. v.); Ov. M 4, 363 al.: campi armis sublimibus [[ardent]], borne [[aloft]], [[lofty]], Verg. A. 11, 602: sublimes in equis redeunt, id. ib. 7, 285: apparet [[liquido]] [[sublimis]] in aëre [[Nisus]], id. G. 1, 404; cf.: ipsa ([[Venus]]) Paphum [[sublimis]] abit, on [[high]] [[through]] the [[air]], id. A. 1, 415: [[sublimis]] abit, Liv. 1, 16; 1, 34: vehitur, Ov. M. 5, 648 al.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>C</b> On [[high]], [[lofty]], in a [[high]] [[position]]: tenuem texens [[sublimis]] [[aranea]] [[telum]], Cat. 68, 49: juvenem sublimem stramine ponunt, Verg. A. 11, 67: sedens solio [[sublimis]] avito, Ov. M. 6, 650: Tyrio jaceat [[sublimis]] in ostro, id. H. 12, 179.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>D</b> Subst.: sublīme, is, n., [[height]]; [[sometimes]] to be rendered the [[air]]: piro per lusum in [[sublime]] jactato, Suet. Claud. 27; so, in [[sublime]], Auct. B. Afr. 84, 1; Plin. 10, 38, 54, § 112; 31, 6, 31, § 57: per [[sublime]] volantes grues, id. 18, 35, 87, § 362: in sublimi posita [[facies]] Dianae, id. 36, 5, 4, § 13: ex sublimi devoluti, id. 27, 12, 105, § 129.—Plur.: antiquique [[memor]] metuit sublimia [[casus]], Ov. M. 8, 259: per maria ac terras sublimaque caeli, Lucr. 1, 340.—<br /><b>II</b> Trop., [[lofty]], [[exalted]], [[eminent]], [[distinguished]].<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> In gen.: antiqui reges ac sublimes viri, Varr. R. R. 2, 4, 9; cf. Luc. 10, 378: [[mens]], Ov. P. 3, 3, 103: pectora, id. F. 1, 301: [[nomen]], id. Tr. 4, 10, 121: [[sublimis]], cupidusque et amata relinquere [[pernix]], aspiring, Hor. A. P. 165; cf.: nil parvum sapias et [[adhuc]] sublimia cures, id. Ep. 1, 12, 15.—Comp.: quā claritate [[nihil]] in rebus humanis sublimius [[duco]], Plin. 22, 5, 5, § 10; Juv. 8, 232.—Sup.: sancimus supponi duos sublimissimos judices, Cod. Just. 7, 62, 39.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> In partic., of [[language]], [[lofty]], [[elevated]], [[sublime]] (freq. in Quint.): sublimia carmina, Juv. 7, 28: [[verbum]], Quint. 8, 3, 18: clara et sublimia verba, id. ib.: [[oratio]], id. 8, 3, 74: [[genus]] dicendi, id. 11, 1, 3: [[actio]] (opp. causae summissae), id. 11, 3, 153: si [[quis]] sublimia humilibus misceat, id. 8, 3, 60 et saep.—Transf., of orators, poets, etc.: [[natura]] [[sublimis]] et [[acer]], Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 165: [[sublimis]] et [[gravis]] et [[grandiloquus]] ([[Aeschylus]]), Quint. 10, 1, 66: Trachalus [[plerumque]] [[sublimis]], id. 10, 1, 119.—Comp.: sublimior [[gravitas]] Sophoclis, Quint. 10, 1, 68: sublimius aliquid, id. 8, 3, 14: jam sublimius illud pro Archiā, [[Saxa]] [[atque]] solitudines voci [[respondent]], id. 8, 3, 75.—Hence, advv.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lit., [[aloft]], [[loftily]], on [[high]].<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(a)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Form sub-līmĭter ([[rare]]): [[stare]], [[upright]], [[Cato]], R. R. 70, 2; so id. ib. 71: volitare, Col. 8, 11, 1: munitur [[locus]], id. 8, 15, 1.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Form sub-līme ([[class]].): Theodori [[nihil]] [[interest]], humine an [[sublime]] putescat, Cic. Tusc. 1, 43, 102; cf.: [[scuta]], quae fuerant [[sublime]] fixa, sunt [[humi]] inventa, id. Div. 2, 31, 67: volare, Lucr. 2, 206; 6, 97: ferri, Cic. Tusc. 1, 17, 40; id. N. D. 2, 39, 101; 2, 56, 141 Orell. N. cr.: elati, Liv. 21, 30: expulsa, Verg. G. 1, 320 et saep.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>b</b> Comp.: sublimius [[altum]] Attollit [[caput]], Ov. Hal. 69.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Trop., of [[speech]], in a [[lofty]] [[manner]], [[loftily]] ([[very]] [[rare]]): [[alia]] sublimius, [[alia]] gravius esse dicenda, Quint. 9, 4, 130.

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