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|lshtext=<b>sub-vĕnĭo</b>: vēni, ventum, 4 (old<br /><b>I</b> fut. subvenibo, Plaut. Men. 5, 7, 20), v. n., to [[come]] up or [[advance]] to one's [[assistance]] (the [[figure]] taken from the [[advance]] of a [[military]] [[reserve]]; v. [[subsidium]]), to [[come]] to one's [[assistance]], to [[aid]], [[assist]], [[relieve]], succor; to [[obviate]], [[remedy]], [[heal]], [[cure]] a [[disease]], an [[evil]], etc. (freq. and [[class]].; syn.: adjuvo, [[succurro]], [[sublevo]]).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(a)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With dat. (so [[most]] freq.): quibus (equitibus) [[celeriter]] subveniunt [[levis]] armaturae pedites, Hirt. B. G. 8, 19: Lucanius circumvento filio subvenit, Caes. B. G. 5, 35: [[Varenus]] [[illi]] laboranti subvenit, id. ib. 5, 44: [[Apollo]] [[quaeso]], subveni mihi [[atque]] adjuva, Plaut. Aul. 2, 8, 24: subveni patriae, opitulare collegae, Cic. Fam. 10, 10, 2: subvenire et opitulari patriae, id. Off. 1, 43, 154: civitati, Caes. B. G. 7, 32; id. B. C. 2, 4: subvenisti homini jam perdito, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 17, § 37: [[pauci]] subveniendum Adherbali censebant, Sall. J. 15, 3: vestri auxilii est, judices, hujus innocentiae subvenire, Cic. Clu. 1, 4: saluti suae acrioribus remediis, id. ib. 24, 67: vitae alicujus, Caes. B. G. 7, 50: stabilitati dentium, Plin. 23, 3, 37, § 74 et saep.: gravedini omni ratione, Cic. Att. 16, 14, 4: morbo, Plin. 22, 25, 61, § 129; 32, 9, 37, § 112: huic meae sollicitudini, Cic. Fam. 2, 6, 4: his tam periculosis rebus, id. Rep. 1, 19, 31.—Esp., of the prætor, to [[render]] [[official]], [[judicial]] [[aid]]: aequissimum erit praetorem ei subvenire, Dig. 47, 10, 7, § 2.—Impers. [[pass]].: subveniri generi [[humano]], Cic. Off. 2, 4, 13: D. Bruti operā, etc. ... provinciae Galliae esse subventum, id. Phil. 5, 13, 36: huic [[quoque]] rei subventum est [[maxime]] a nobis, id. Att. 1, 17, 9: [[nisi]] [[celeriter]] sociis foret subventum, Hirt. B. Afr. 26, 4.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Absol.: et defendam et subvenibo [[sedulo]], Plaut. Men. 5, 7, 20: [[age]], fi [[benignus]], subveni, id. Pers. 1, 1, 39: circumvenior, judices, [[nisi]] subvenitis, Cic. Brut. 75, 260: illum orare, ut subveniret, id. Div. 1, 27, 57: et subventuros auferet [[unda]] deos, Ov. Am. 2, 16, 28; Tac. A. 4, 72. —Impers. [[pass]].: priusquam ex castris subveniretur, Sall. J. 54, 10: ni subveniatur, Liv. 23, 14: [[nisi]] in tempore subventum foret, id. 34, 18; 29, 25.—<br /><b>II</b> In gen., to [[come]] up, [[come]] ([[very]] [[rare]]).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Lit.: aliud in eo ([[sale]]) mirabile est, [[quod]] [[tantundem]] nocte subvenit, [[quantum]] [[die]] auferas, Plin. 31, 7, 39, § 74.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Trop.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ut quaeque vox digna animadverti subvenerat, memoriae mandabamus, came to [[mind]], occurred to us, Gell. 19, 7, 2.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To [[come]] to one's [[mind]], [[occur]] to him; [[with]] inf., App. M. 3, p. 131, 37.