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sŭo, sŭi, sūtum, 3, v. a. [Sanscr. siv-, sivjāmi, sew; Gr. κασσύω, to stitch, cobble], to sew or stitch, to sew, join, or tack together (rare but class.).

  1. I. Lit.: quod (foramen) nisi permagnā vi sui non potest, Cels. 7, 4, 3: tegumenta corporum vel texta vel suta, Cic. N. D. 2, 60, 150: unius os sutum, Flor. 4, 12, 36: pellibus et sutis arcent male frigora bracis, Ov. Tr. 3, 10, 19: hi plerasque naves loris suebant, Varr. ap. Gell. 17, 3, 4: navis suta lino et sparteis serilibus, Pac. ap. Fest. s. v. serilla, p. 340 fin. Müll. (Trag. Rel. v. 251 Rib.): corticibus suta cavatis alvearia, Verg. G. 4, 33: pilea suta de caesis lacernis, Stat. S. 4, 9, 24.
  2. * II. Trop.: metue lenonem, ne quid suo suat capiti, devise, Ter. Phorm. 3, 2, 6; cf. consuo, II.
    Hence, P. a. as subst.: sūta, ōrum, n., that which is made of plates fastened together, mail, a coat of mail: huic gladio perque aerea suta Per tunicam squalentem auro latus haurit apertum, Verg. A. 10, 313: magnorum aerea suta Thoracum, Stat. Th. 3, 585: latus omne sub armis Ferrea suta terunt, id. ib. 4, 131.

sŭōmet and sŭopte, v. suus.

sŭŏvĕtaurīlĭa, or sōlĭtaurīlĭa, ĭum, n. [sus-ovis-taurus; cf. Quint. 1, 5, 67 Spald.; Fest. p. 293 Müll., or sollus-taurus], a sacrifice consisting of a swine, a sheep, and a bull, offered esp. at lustrations: solitaurilia hostiarum trium diversi generis immolationem significant, tauri, arietis, verris, quod omnes eae solidi integrique sint corporis, etc., Fest. p. 293: Mars pater lustri faciendi ergo macte hisce suovetaurilibus lactentibus esto, an old formula of prayer, Cato, R. R. 141, 3 sq.; cf. id. ib. 144, 1; Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 10; Liv. 1, 44, 2; 8, 10, 14; Tac. A. 6, 37; id. H. 4, 53; Fest. s. v. opima, p. 189 Müll.; Inscr. Fr. Arv. ap. Marin. 32; 41; 43.
Form solitaurilia, Ps.-Ascon. ap. Cic. Div. in Caecil. 3; cf. Fest. p. 293 Müll.