FOUND Copy link • FOUNDv. To lay the foundation of anything, fundamenta locare (only absolutely): fundamenta alicujus rei jacere or (seldom) ponere (PROP. and figuratively): fundamenta alicui rei fodere (to dig the ground up for that purpose: ☞ fundare is only used in prose for “making firm and stable” something of which the foundations have been already laid): initia alicujus rei ponere: prima initia alicujus rei inchoare or ponere (figuratively): aliquid pro fundamento ponere (i. e., to lay anything as or for a foundation): condere: instituere (to found in a wider sense; to establish): stabilire (to make firm): constituere (to found, with accessory notion of regularity, firmness). To found an empire, imperium constituere or condere (not imperium fundare, which conveys the meaning of “giving stability’): to found a state, civitatem or rempublicam constituere: to found a new state, novas res condere: to found a town, urbem condere or constituere: to found anything at a place, aliquid exstruere, ponere in aliquo loco: to found (e.g., a school, a sect), fundare disciplinam: he sent ten thousand Athenians to found a colony there, eo decem millia Atheniensium in coloniam misit (Cic., Nep.): to be founded on anything (of notions, persuasions, etc.), niti aliqua re or in aliqua re; also, niti fundamento alicujus rei (to rest upon it as its foundation); teneri or contineri aliqua re (to be held together by it); cerni or positum esse in aliqua re (to rest on it). To melt and cast metals, liquefacere: liquare (to make fluid; e.g., bronze, etc.): conflare (to melt down; e.g., victorias aureas; i. e., the gold statues of the Goddess of Victory). Vid: also, To FUSE, To CAST.