(verb) : dī-vello, velli (Ov. M. 11, 38;
* But divulsi,Sen. Hippol. 1173), vulsum, 3
* To rend asunder, to tear in pieces, to separate violently, to tear (class.; cf.: findo, scindo, dirimo, segrego, secerno).
* Lit.: res a natura copulatas audebit divellere,Cic. Off. 3, 18 fin.: corpus, et undis spargere,Verg. A. 4, 600; so, corpus,Ov. M. 4, 112: agnam,Hor. S. 1, 8, 27; cf.: suos artus lacero morsu,Ov. M. 8, 878: membra,id. Tr. 3, 9, 27; id. M. 13, 865 et saep.: magnos montes manibus,i. e. to cleave,Lucr. 1, 202; cf.: mediam partem quercus (with discidere),Gell. 15, 16, 3: nodos manibus,to untie,Verg. A. 2, 220: paenulam sentibus,Suet. Ner. 48: nubem,Lucr. 6, 203; cf.: moenia mundi,id. 6, 122.
* (Like distraho, II.) To tear away, separate, remove from something (class.).
* Lit.: membra divellere ac distrahere,Cic. Sull. 20 fin.: aliquem ab aliquo,id. Cat. 2, 10, 22; id. Mil. 36: liberos a parentum complexu,Sall. C. 51, 9; for which: aliquem dulci amplexu,Verg. A. 8, 568; cf.: Damalin adultero,Hor. C. 1, 36, 19: nec me umquam Gyas (sc. a te),id. ib. 2, 17, 15.
* Trop.: sapientiam, temperantiam, a voluptate divellere ac distrahere,Cic. Fin. 1, 16, 50. —So of persons, to draw away from one in feeling, to estrange: qui a me mei servatorem capitis divellat ac distrahat,Cic. Planc. 42, 102.

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