Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Sublica

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

SUB'LICA. A pile driven into the earth, or into the ground under water, for the purpose of raising some other superstructure upon it. Liv. xxiii. 37. Vitruv. iv. 3. 2.