rĕ-sŭpīnus, a, um, adj., bent back or backwards, lying on one’s back or with the face upwards, supine (not in Cic.).
I Lit.: resupinum in caelo contueri, i. e. lying on one’s back , face upwards , supine , Att. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 22, 44: fertur equis curruque haeret resupinus inani, Verg. A. 1, 476: eque tuo pendet resupino spiritus ore, Lucr. 1, 37; Ov. H. 16, 255; id. M. 2, 267: jacuit resupinus humi, id. ib. 4, 121; 12, 324: hunc ego resupinum fudi, id. ib. 13, 86 al.: retro lentas tendo resupinus habenas, bent back , id. ib. 15, 520: collum, id. ib. 1, 730: pectus, id. ib. 12, 138: caput, Plin. 8, 25, 38, § 93 et saep. — Of an arrogant gait or manner: (Niobe) mediam tulerat gressus resupina per urbem, with head thrown back , i. e. proudly , Ov. M. 6, 275; cf. Sen. Ep. 80, 7; Cod. Th. 9, 3, 6: si non resupini spectantesque tectum expectaverimus, quid obveniat, Quint. 10, 3, 15: spectat resupino sidera vultu, Mart. 9, 44, 3.—
B Transf., of things turned or bent back : Elis, spread out on a hill , Stat. Th. 4, 237: labra lilii, Plin. 21, 5, 11, § 23: vomer, id. 18, 18, 48, § 171.—
II Trop., lazy , slothful , effeminate , careless , negligent : voluptas, Quint. 5, 12, 20; cf. id. 11, 3, 167: qui solvit, numquam ita resupinus est, ut facile suas pecunias jactet, Dig. 22, 3, 25: existimatio, ib. 43, 24, 4.