prop (v.) Copy link Outline 1. fulcio, si, ltum, 42. pĕdo, 1 (in horticulture)3. expr. to be p.'d by, innītor, subnītor (as it were, to lean upon • prop (v.): 1. fulcio, si, ltum, 4: to p. a vine, vitem f., Cic. Sen. 15, 52: Atlas who p.s up the heavens with his head, Atlas coelum qui vertice f., Virg. Aen. 4, 247. Comp. suffulcio, 4 (to support from beneath): Lucr.: Mart. 2. pĕdo, 1 (in horticulture): to p. vines, vineas p., Col. 4, 12, init. 3. expr. to be p.'d by, innītor, subnītor (as it were, to lean upon: poet.): temples p.'d on columns vast, templa vastis innixa columnis, Ov. Pont. 3, 2, 49: so, subnixus, Cic. Rep. 6, 20. (N.B.--These two verbs are chiefly used in present sense, in p. part.; subnixus mostly fig.: v. relying on.)