rĕ-sŭpīno

I. perf., ātum, 1, v. a., to bend or turn back (rare; not in Cic.).

I. Lit.: puer ad me accurrit, Pone apprehendit pallio, resupinat, Ter. Phorm. 5, 6, 23: assurgentem ibi regem umbone resupinat, Liv. 4, 19: hominem, Cels. 7, 16: nares planā manu, Quint. 11, 3, 80: colla (turtures, cum bibunt), Plin. 10, 34, 52, § 105; cf.: caput (aves bibentes), id. 10, 46, 63, § 129: valvas, Prop. 4 (5), 8, 51. resupinati cessantia tympana Galli, i. e. prostrate from drunkenness, Juv. 8, 176 et saep.— In mal. part., to stretch out: aviam amici, Juv. 3, 112.— Pass. in mid. force: leones resupinari, Plin. 24, 17, 102, § 162.—

II. Trop.: rem, to overthrow, ruin, destroy, Att. ap. Non. 165, 3: quid tantopere te resupinet? Sen. Ben. 2, 13, 1.