dis-par, ăris
* Adj., unlike, dissimilar, different, unequal (freq. and class.; cf.: impar, dissimilis, absimilis).
* Absol.: dispares mores disparia studia sequentur, quorum dissimilitudo dissociat amicitias,Cic. Lael. 20, 74: cf. id. Fin. 2, 3, 10: ostendi, parem dignitatem, disparem fortunam in Murena atque in Sulpicio fuisse,id. Mur. 21; cf. id. Planc. 24 fin.; id. Prov. Cons. 7, 17; Caes. B. G. 7, 39; Sall. J. 52, 1 al.: tempora,Cic. N. D. 1, 31, 87; cf. id. Off. 1, 34; 2, 18: proelium,Caes. B. G. 5, 16, 2; cf. certamen,unequal, ill-matched,Ov. Am. 2, 2, 61: habitus animorum,Liv. 30, 28: via dicendi,Quint. 10, 1, 67 et saep.: calami,i. e. unequal, of different lengths,Ov. M. 1, 711; cf. avenae,id. ib. 8, 192: fistula,id. ib. 2, 682; and cicutae,Verg. E. 2, 36.
* With dat.: color rebus (opp. par),Lucr. 2, 738: sunt his alii multum dispares,Cic. Off. 1, 30, 109: illa oratio huic,id. de Or. 2, 44: atque discolor matrona meretrici,Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 3 et saep.
* With gen.: quicquam dispar sui atque dissimile,Cic. de Sen. 21, 78: sortis,Sil. 5, 19: animorum,id. 8, 570.

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