set up Copy link Outline I. To place upright1. stătuo, ui, ūtum, 32. ērĭgo, 3II. To establish in the way of businessIII. To set up with authority • set up: I. To place upright: 1. stătuo, ui, ūtum, 3: to set up a little pillar on a mound of earth, columellam super terrae tumulum s., Cic. Leg. 2, 26, 66: to s. up a trophy, tropaeum s., id. Inv. 2, 23, 69: to s. up tents, tabernacula s., Caes. B. C. 1, 81, init. Comp. (1). constĭtuo (with the additional notion of building, constructing): to s. up a sepulchre, sepulcrum c., Ov. M. 6, 568: he began to s. up two towers, turres duas c. coepit, Caes. B. G. 7, 17, init. (2). restĭtuo, 3 (to set up again): the senate decreed that our statue of Minerva should be s. up again, senatus decrevit ut Minerva nostra restitueretur, Cic. Fam. 12, 25, init.: to s. up a tree again, arborem r., Virg. G. 2, 272. 2. ērĭgo, 3: v. to erect. II. To establish in the way of business: instruo, xi, ctum, 3: to s. up an inn, thermopolium in., Pl. Ps. 2, 4, 52: to s. a person up with a shop, *aliquem taberna instrumentoque exornare. III. To set up with authority: constĭtuo, ui, ūtum, 3: to s. up kings in the state, reges in civitate c., Cic. Agr. 2, 6, 15: the decemviral power being s. up in all the cities, decemvirali potestate in omnibus urbibus constituta, Nep. Lys. 2, init. Phr.: to s. up any one's fortune, *fortunas pristinas restituere.