Supra

Latin-English

sŭprā. (ˈsu.pra) adv. or prep. w/acc.

1. Over, above.

[superus.]

Cic.	23%	Class.	0%	Rom.	0%	Med.	0%	Neo.	0%

Constructions

Verb constructions

• supra dicere — Cic. [αʹ], [α²], [α³], [α⁴], [εʹ]
• supra esse — Cic. [στʹ], [ιζʹ]
• supra posse — Cic. [βʹ], [θʹ]
• supra scribere — Cic. [γʹ], [δʹ], [ζʹ], [ζ²], [ηʹ], [η²], [η³], [ιʹ], [ιβʹ], [ιγʹ], [ιεʹ]

Loci

• αʹ v. Cicero, Academica 1.6:

cetera, quae supra dicta sunt ad virtutis usum idonea

the rest, which were said above to be conducive to the practice of virtue

• α² v. Cicero, Academica 1.7:

quintum genus, e quo essent astra mentesque, singulare eorumque quattuor quae supra dixi dissimile Aristoteles quoddam esse rebatur.

Aristotle considered there to be a fifth element, unique and different from the four which I mentioned above, which stars and minds would be made out of.

• α³ v. Cicero, Academica 1.38:

illi ea genera virtutum quae supra dixi seiungi posse arbitrarentur

they believed those kinds of virtues which I mentioned above could be distinguished

• α⁴ v. Cicero, Academica 1.42:

ut supra dixi comprehensio facta sensibus et vera esse illi et fidelis videbatur

As I mentioned above, he believed that perception produced by the senses was both true and trustworthy.

• βʹ v. Cicero, Ad Atticum 13.19:

eos confeci et absolvi nescio quam bene, sed ita accurate ut nihil posset supra, academicam omnem quaestionem libris quattuor.

I wrote them up and explained—I couldn't say how well, but carefully enough that there couldn't have been anything left out—the whole Academic question in four books.

• γʹ v. Cicero, Ad Atticum 16.16a:

haec quae supra scripsi ad eos delata sunt

The things that I mentioned above were reported to them.

• δʹ v. Cicero, Ad Atticum 3.19:

mihi Epirus aut iter ad salutem dabit aut quod scripsi supra.

Epirus will either provide me a path to health, or else what I mentioned above.

• εʹ v. Cicero, Ad Atticum 8.14:

sed, ut supra dixi, tecum perlibenter loquor

but, as I said before, I thoroughly enjoy talking with you

• στʹ v. Brutus ap. Cicero, Ad Brutum 1.17:

potentia quae supra leges se esse velit

power that wishes itself to be above the laws

• ζʹ v. Cicero, Ad Familiares 11.5:

cum hortatione non egeas, ut supra scripsi, non utar ea pluribus verbis

because you do not need encouragement—as I mentioned above—I will not spend more words on it.

• ζ² v. Decimus Brutus ap. Cicero, Ad Familiares 11.10:

cum haec talia sint, quo minus, quod ad me pertinebit, homines interpellent, ut supra scripsi, non impedio

If this is how things are, as far as I'm concerned, I won't keep people from interposing, as I mentioned above.

• ηʹ v. Cicero, Ad Familiares 13.4:

sed haec, quae supra scripta sunt, eo spectant, ut et horter et suadeam

But these things that have been written above aim both to encourage and persuade.

• η² v. Cicero, Ad Familiares 13.28:

illud, quod supra scripsi, id 〈 tibi confirmo 〉 in meque recipio

And that which I mentioned above, I am confirming it to you and taking it on myself

• η³ v. Cicero, Ad Familiares 13.63:

commendo tibi hominem sic ut intellegis me 〈 eum, de 〉 quo ea supra scripserim, debere commendare

I commend this person to you as strongly as you expect I should commend the one who I wrote those things about above.

• θʹ v. Cicero, Ad Familiares 14.1:

Pisonis humanitas, virtus, amor in omnes nos tantus est, ut nihil supra possit

Piso's kindness, his virtue, his love for us all, are such that nothing could surpass them.

• ιʹ v. Cicero, Ad Familiares 3.10:

ut supra scripsi, purgare me tibi hoc tuo tempore quam accusare te mallem

as I mentioned above, I preferred, under your circumstances, to justify myself to you rather than accuse you

• ιαʹ Sulpicius Rufus ap. Cicero, Ad Familiares 4.12:

ille, uti aiebat, supra Maleas in Italiam versus navigaturus erat.

He, as he said, was going to sail past Cape Maleas heading towards Italy.

• ιβʹ v. Cicero, Ad Familiares 6.10:

tibi et illa polliceor, quae supra scripsi, quae sunt adhuc mea, et ea, quae praeterea videor mihi ex aliqua parte retinere tamquam ex reliquiis pristinae dignitatis

I promise you both those things which I mentioned above which are still mine, and also those things which I seem to myself to in some degree retain from the remains of my original status

• ιγʹ v. Caelius Rufus ap. Cicero, Ad Familiares 8.6:

Quod tibi supra scripsi Curionem valde frigere, iam calet; nam ferventissime concerpitur

Though I wrote to you before that Curio was very much out in the cold, now things are warming up for him, for he's being rather heatedly torn apart.

• ιδʹ Cicero, Ad Familiares 9.26:

Dices: "ubi?" Apud Volumnium Eutrapelum, et quidem supra me Atticus, infra Verrius, familiares tui.

Where, you say? At Volumnius Eutrapelus's, and with friends of yours as well; Atticus is above me, Verrius below.

• ιεʹ v. Cicero, Ad Quintum Fratrem 1.1:

At ea quidem, quae supra scripta sunt, non ut te instituerem scripsi.

I didn't write all those things that are mentioned above as instructions to you, though.

• ιστʹ Cicero, Ad Quintum Fratrem 1.2:

Ecce supra caput homo levis ac sordidus, sed tamen equestri censu, Catienus: etiam is lenietur.

See, hanging over my head is a mean and capricious person, though still of the equestrian class—Catienus—even he will be placated.

• ιζʹ v. Cicero, Ad Quintum Fratrem 3.1:

Romam cum venissem a. d. XIII. Kal. Octobres, absolutum offendi in aedibus tuis tectum, quod supra conclavia non placuerat tibi esse multorum fastigiorum: id nunc honeste vergit in tectum inferioris porticus.

When I got to Rome on September 19, I found that the roof of your house—above the rooms, where you didn't want there to be so many gables—had been finished; it now slopes handsomely down to the roof of the lower colonnade.