dī-dūco, xi, ctum, 3
* V. a., to draw apart; to part, split, separate, sever, sunder, divide (class.).
* Lit.
* In gen.: ventus eas (sc. nubes) leviter diducit,Lucr. 6, 215: cum compresserat digitos pugnumque fecerat ... cum autem diduxerat et manum dilataverat, etc.,Cic. Or. 32, 113; of the graceful movements of the arms in dancing: molli diducit candida gestu brachia,Prop. 3, 15, 5 (Müll. al. deducit): candida seu molli diducit brachia motu,Stat. S. 3, 5, 66; cf. oculum,Cels. 7, 7, 4: supercilium volnere diductum,Plin. 11, 37, 57, § 157: pedem et crus in diversa,Cels. 8, 22: os,Plin. 32, 4, 14, § 36: nares, Quint 11, 3, 80: labra,ib. 81: fauces immani hiatu,to stretch,Sil. 3, 194: rictum risu,Hor. S. 1, 10, 7 et saep.: nodos manu,Ov. M. 2, 560; cf.: complexus vestros,Prop. 1, 13, 19: humum,Ov. M. 8, 588; cf.: arva et urbes,Verg. A. 3, 419: terram,id. G. 2, 354: scopulos (Hannibal),Juv. 10, 153; cf. of natural cleavings of the earth,Tac. A. 2, 47; 12, 69: cibum, i. e. to digest = digerere, Cels. 3, 4 fin.; v.the foll.: mixti neque inter se diducti colores,Cels. 2, 8 et saep.—With in: crudam materiam in corpus omne diduci, Cels. praef.: maxima flumina in rivos diducuntur,Quint. 5, 13, 13; cf.: domum in multos diductam recessus,id. 11, 2, 18.
* Trop. (mostly post-Aug.): cum diducaris ab eo, quicum libentissime vixeris,Cic. Inv. 1, 55 fin.; cf.: amicitias cohaerentes, Sen. de Ira, 2, 29: nuptias,id. Contr. 2, 13; cf. matrimonium,Suet. Oth. 3; and: si repudio diducta fuerit,Sen. Contr. 2, 10: diducta civitas ut civili bello,divided into parties,Tac. A. 4, 17; cf. below: in sterili jejunaque materia, eandem speciem laudis diducere ac spargere,Plin. Pan. 66, 1; cf. argumenta,Quint. 4, 2, 82; 5, 13, 12: nomina,id. 6, 3, 17 Spald.: litem domini et conductoris,i. e. to settle, adjust,Col. 3, 13, 12 et saep.—With in: assem in partes centum,Hor. A. P. 326: in tres partes medicina diducta est, Cels. praef.: haec omnia rursus in species,Quint. 2, 14, 5; cf. id. 5, 10, 61; 94 al.: divisionem in digitos,to tell off on one's fingers,id. 4, 5, 24 (coupled with partiri); cf. argumenta,id. 11, 1, 53: animum in tam multiplex officium,id. 20, 7, 9: ultio senatum in studia diduxerat,Tac. H. 4, 6; 2, 68; cf.: seditio in diversa consilia diduxerat vulgum,Curt. 9, 1; of classification, to divide: in tres partes medicinam, Cels. praef.

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