Lewis Short
(verb) : dī-verbĕro, no
* Perf., ātum, 1, , to strike asunder, to cut, cleave, divide.
* Lit. (poet. and post-Aug. prose): res ictu,Lucr. 1, 223: aërias undas,id. 2, 151: volucres auras sagittā,Verg. A. 5, 503: umbras ferro,id. ib. 6, 294; 9, 411: fluctus,Curt. 4, 4: quod jubis pronos cervix diverberet armos,flaps, strikes,Nemes. Cyn. 265.
* Transf., to cudgel soundly: servum,Lact. 2, 7 fin.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary