sublimen

sub-līmen, adv. [acc. to Ritschl, Opusc. 2, p. 464, = sublimen superum, referring to the hanging up of slaves for punishment; but acc. to Ussing ad Plaut. As. v. 859 from sublimis],

• on high, upwards (mostly anteclass.): facite illic homo jam in medicinam ablatus sublimen siet, Plaut. Men. 5, 7, 3 (992) Ritschl: jam sublimen raptum oportuit, id. ib. 5, 7, 6 (995) ib.: sublimen ferre, id. ib. 5, 7, 13 (1002) ib.; 5, 8, 3 (1052) ib. (in all these passages Brix reads sublimis, sublimem); cf.: illum jubes ancillas rapere sublimen domum, id. As. 5, 2, 18 (868) (Fleck. sublimem; cf. Ussing ad loc.): sublimen intro hunc rape, Ter. And. 861 Fleck. (Umpfenb. sublimem): sublimen medium arriperem, id. Ad. 316 ib.: aspice hoc sublimen candens, Enn. ap. Cic. N. D. 2, 2, 4; 2, 25, 65; 3, 4, 10; 3, 16, 40 B. and K. (al. sublime); cf. Liv. 1, 16, 2 Weissenb. ad loc.; and Rib. writes sublimen (for sublimis, etc.), Verg. G. 1, 242; 1, 404; id. A. 1, 259; 10, 144; 11, 67; 11, 722.—(For a full discussion of these passages and the word, v. Ritschl, Opusc. 2, p. 462 sqq.; Rib. in Fleck. Jahrb. 77, p. 184 sqq.; and contra, R. Klotz ad Ter. And. p. 197 sqq.)

sublīmen, s. sublīmis ➳ .

sublimen [CL sub-+limen], (in gl.) threshold. hoc ~en, A. thriswald WW.

sublīmen (sublimis), [diverses explications ont été proposées de ce mot : v. P. Fest. 307 ; Heræus, 1896  ; Lindsay, 1907 , p. 228 ; Ernout, 1985 , s. v. sublimis ],adv. = sublime, en haut, dans les airs : Pl. Men. 992 ; 995 ; 1002 ; Ter. Andr. 861.

*sublimen, inis. n.
門上限。

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sublīmen adv.

• cf. sublimis, on high, upwards: sublimen intro hunc rape, T.: aspice hoc sublimen candens, Enn. ap. C.(Ribbeck reads sublimen in several passages of Vergil, for sublime, etc.).