ERECT Copy link • ERECT 1. PROPR., excitare (e.g., a monument, a tower): educere (to raise to a great height; e.g., Pyramids): statuere: constituere (to place, etc.; a column, trophy, tent, etc.): exstruere (build up; a monument, etc.). IMPROPR., Erect myself into (e.g., “to erect myself into a judge”): to erect one’s self into a tyrant, tyrannidem or dominatum or principatum occupare; into a king, regnum occupare or sibi vindicare; into an umpire, *arbitrum se offerre: *arbitri partes sibi sumere; into a judge, *judicis partes sibi sumere. To found, constituere: condere: to erect a commonwealth that will last, diuturnam rempublicam serere (Cic.): constituere rempublicam, quae possit esse diuturna [Vid: To FOUND]: to erect a college, school, etc., *collegium, gymnasium instituere. 2. adj., rectus: erectus: Cels. et erectus. To place erect, erigere: to stand erect, rectum assistere: to walk erect, erectum vadere, incedere: one who can not walk erect, quem femora destituunt: to keep erect, sustinere; sustentare: to keep one’s self erect, se sustinere (also figuratively), or (if one is in danger of falling) se a lapsu sustinere.