I.to carry, bring, put or lay under, etc. (class., esp. in the trop. sense).
B. To heap up, raise, erect, build: “humo,” Prop. 4 (5), 4, 8. cf.: “celsis suggesta theatra columnis,” Sil. 14, 644.—
C. To furnish, afford, supply ( = praebeo, suppedito, ministro): “cur tu his rebus sumptum suggeris?” Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 37: “tela mihi,” Verg. A. 10, 333: “omnium rerum apparatus, Auct. B. Alex. 3, 1: cibum animalibus,” Tac. H. 3, 36: “divitias alimentaque (tellus),” Ov. M. 15, 82: “feras silvae affatim suggerunt,” Plin. Ep. 2, 8, 1: “ructanti pinnas rubentes,” Mart. 3, 82, 8. —Absol.: “aliae (apes) struunt, aliae suggerunt,” Plin. 11, 10, 10, § 22.—
II. Trop., to afford, furnish, supply: “invidiae flammam ac materiam criminibus suis suggerere,” Liv. 3, 11: “suggeram quae vendatis,” id. 10, 17, 5: “materiam interrogationi,” Quint. 5, 7, 8. —
B. To excite, produce: “sincipitamenta porcina, quae anteposita in mensā mihi bulimum suggerant,” Plaut. Men. 1, 3, 29 Ritschl (MSS. milvina; cf. “Brix ad loc.): aut Druso ludus est suggerendus aut, etc.,” is to be put upon, imposed upon, Cic. Att. 12, 44, 2. —
C. To suggest, advise, prompt, offer, bring to mind: “quoties aequitas restitutionem suggerit,” Dig. 4, 6, 26 fin.; cf.: “quae (res) suggerit, ut Italicarum rerum esse credantur eae res,” reminds, admonishes, ib. 28, 5, 35 fin.: “quaedam de republicā,” Aur. Vict. Vir. Ill. 66, 2. — Absol.: “suggerente conjuge,” at the instigation of, Aur. Vict. Epit. 41, 11; cf.: “suggerente irā,” id. ib. 12, 10.—
D. To assign, add, subjoin: huic incredibili sententiae ratiunculas suggerit, Cic. N. D. 3, 29, 73: “copiam argumentorum singulis generibus,” id. de Or. 2, 27, 117: “firmamenta causae,” id. ib. 2, 81, 331: “verba, quae desunt,” id. ib. 2, 26, 110: apud quosdam veteres auctores non invenio Lucretium consulem; “Bruto statim Horatium suggerunt,” place next in order, Liv. 2, 8; 9, 44: “ut quidam annales nihil praeter nomina consulum suggerant,” id. 4, 20: “suggerebantur damna aleatoria,” were added, Cic. Phil. 2, 27, 67.
