prop (subs.) Copy link Outline I. Lit.1. cŏlūmen, ĭnis, n. (gable-prop, mainstay)2. pĕdāmen, pĕdāmentum (for vines to climb)3. admĭnĭcŭlum (more elegant term = pedamen)4. stătūmen, ĭnis, n. (any kind of "upright")II. Fig. • prop (subs.): I. Lit.: 1. cŏlūmen, ĭnis, n. (gable-prop, mainstay): Vitr. 4, 2, init. 2. pĕdāmen, pĕdāmentum (for vines to climb): Varr. 1, 8: Col. 3. admĭnĭcŭlum (more elegant term = pedamen): Cic. N. D. 2, 47, init. 4. stătūmen, ĭnis, n. (any kind of "upright"): Col. 4, 16, med. (= pedamentum): cf. ib. 6, 19. II. Fig.: main support: cŏlūmen: the p. of a family, c. familiae, Ter. Ph. 2, 1, 57: Cic.: Hor. Join: caput columenque [Romani imperii], Liv. 38, 51. Also praesĭdium may serve: cf. Hor. Od. 1, 1, 2. Phr.: he is the only p. of the whole family, solus omnem familiam sustentat, Ter. Ad. 3, 4, 35: who is regarded as the p. of the portico, qui fulcire putatur porticum Stoicorum, Cic. Ac. 2, 24, 75. (Not adminiculum in this sense.)