Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Supplex

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. 

SUPPLEX. One who supplicates in a kneeling posture, or with his knees bent under him (sub and plico), as the annexed figure (Supplex/1.1) of a German captive supplicating Trajan, from the column of that emperor. Virg. Cic. &c.

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