(adverb) : carptim, carptus, carpo (in the ante-Aug. per. very rare; not in Cic.)
* By pieces, by detached parts, in parts, separately: favos congerere in qualum,Col. 9, 15, 12: res gestas carptim perscribere,Sall. C. 4, 2 Kritz; cf. Plin. Ep. 6, 22, 2; 8, 4, 7: carptim divisis agris,into small pieces,Suet. Dom. 9: carptim breviterque perstringi,Plin. Pan. 25, 1 Schwarz.
* Meton.
* At different places or points, on different sides: aggredi,Liv. 44, 41, 7: carptim Poeni pugnavere,id. 22, 16, 2: superesse,Suet. Dom. 9.
* Opp. to that which happens at once, at different times, at one time and another, now and then: ut ad stipendium petendum convenirent Carthaginem, seu carptim partes, seu universi mallent,Liv. 28, 25, 10: dimissi carptim ac singuli,Tac. H. 4, 46: si (corvi) carptim vocem resorbebunt,at intervals,Plin. 18, 35, 87, § 362.

s. TLL