(v. a.P. a.) : dī-vĭdo, vīsi, vīsum, 3 (
* Perf. sync. divisse, Hor. S. 2, 3, 169), v. a. root vidh-, to part, split; Sanscr. vidhyati, to penetrate, whence vidhava; Lat. vidua.
* To force asunder, part, separate, divide (very freq. and class.; cf.: distribuo, dispertio; findo, scindo, dirimo, divello, separo, sejungo, segrego, secerno).
* Lit.: Europam Libyamque rapax ubi dividit unda, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 20; and id. N. D. 3, 10: discludere mundum membraque dividere,Lucr. 5, 440; cf.: si omne animal secari ac dividi potest, nullum est eorum individuum,Cic. N. D. 3, 12: crassum aërem,id. Tusc. 1, 19 fin. (with perrumpere); cf. nubila,Hor. C. 1, 34, 6: muros,to break through,Verg. A. 2, 234: marmor cuneis,to split,Plin. 36, 5, 4, § 14; cf.: hunc medium securi,Hor. S. 1, 1, 100: mediam frontem ferro,Verg. A. 9, 751; also simply, insulam, for to divide into two parts, Liv. 24, 6.—Poet.: vagam caelo volucrem,i. e. to cleave, to shoot,Sil. 2, 90: sol ... in partes non aequas dividit orbem,Lucr. 5, 683; so Galliam in partes tres,Caes. B. G. 1, 1: vicum in duas partes flumine,id. ib. 3, 1, 6: civitatem Helvetiam in quatuor pagos,id. ib. 1, 12, 4: populum unum in duas partes,Cic. Rep. 1, 19; cf. Caes. B. G. 7, 32, 5; id. B. C. 1, 35, 3: divisi in factiones,Suet. Ner. 20 et saep.
* To divide, separate, part from; to remove from (class.).
* Trop.
* In mercant. lang. like distrahere and divendere, to sell piecemeal, in parcels, to retail, Suet. Caes. 54; id. Ner. 26.
* In mal. part., Plaut. Aul. 2, 4, 4 Wagner; 7; cf. Petr. 11 Büch.
* In gen.: bona tripartito,Cic. Tusc. 5, 13 fin.: annum ex aequo,Ov. M. 5, 565: horas (bucina),Luc. 2, 689: tempora curarum remissionumque,Tac. Agr. 9: dignitatem ordinum,id. A. 13, 27: et explanare ambigua,Cic. Or. 32 fin.: idem genus universum in species certas partietur et dividet,id. ib. 33, 117; cf. of logical or rhet. division,id. Fin. 2, 9, 28; Quint. 3, 6, 37 et saep.: verba, to divide at the end of the line, Suet. Aug. 87: nos alio mentes, alio divisimus aures,Cat. 62, 15; cf.: animum nunc huc celerem, nunc dividit illuc,Verg. A. 4, 285.
* In partic.
* Sententiam, polit. t. t., to divide the question, i. e. to take the vote separately upon the several parts of a motion or proposition: divisa sententia est postulante nescio quo,Cic. Mil. 6, 14; id. Fam. 1, 2; Plin. Ep. 8, 14, 15; Sen. Ep. 21; id. Vit. Beat. 3. The expression used in requiring this was DIVIDE, Ascon. Cic. Mil. 6, 14.
* (Acc. to A. 2. a.) To distribute, apportion: sic belli rationem esse divisam, ut, etc.,Caes. B. C. 3, 17, 3: haec temporibus,Ter. And. 3, 1, 18; Just. Praef. § 3: ea (negotia) divisa hoc modo dicebantur, etc.,Sall. C. 43, 2.
* Pregn., to break up, dissolve, destroy = dissolvere: nostrum concentum,Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 31: ira fuit capitalis ut ultima divideret mors,id. S. 1, 7, 13: dividitur ferro regnum,Luc. 1, 109; cf.: dividimus muros, et moenia pandimus urbis,Verg. A. 2, 234.
* To accompany, i. e. to share upon an instrument a song sung by a voice: grata feminis Imbelli cithara carmina divides,Hor. C. 1, 15, 15.
* Lit.: flumen Rhenus agrum Helvetium a Germanis dividit ... flumen Rhodanus provinciam nostram ab Helvetiis dividit,Caes. B. G. 1, 2, 3; 1, 8, 1; 5, 11, 9: Macedoniam a Thessalia,id. B. C. 3, 36, 3: Gallos ab Aquitanis,id. B. G. 1, 1, 2 al.: tota cervice desecta, divisa a corpore capita,Liv. 31, 34, 4: populum distribuit in quinque classes, senioresque a junioribus divisit,Cic. Rep. 2, 22: tam multa illa meo divisast milia lecto, Quantum, etc.,Prop. 1, 12, 3; cf.: dextras miseris complexibus,Stat. Th. 3, 166: tuis toto dividor orbe rogis,Ov. Pont. 1, 9, 48: dividor (sc.: ab uxore) haud aliter, quam si mea membra relinquam,Ov. Tr. 1, 3, 73; cf. Prop. 1, 12, 10: (Italiam) Longa procul longis via dividit invia terris,separates, keeps distant,Verg. A. 3, 383; cf. id. ib. 12, 45: discedite a contactu ac dividite turbidos,Tac. A. 1, 43 fin.
* Trop., to separate, distinguish: legem bonam a mala,Cic. Leg. 1, 16, 44: defensionem (opp. se comitem exitii promittebat),Tac. A. 3, 15.
* Transf., for distinguere (II.), to distinguish, decorate, adorn (very rare): qualis gemma micat, fulvum quae dividit aurum,Verg. A. 10, 134: scutulis dividere,Plin. 8, 48, 74, § 196.—Hence, dīvīsus, a, um, P. a., divided, separated: divisior,Lucr. 4, 962.—Adv.
* Dīvīse, distinctly, separately, Gell. 1, 22, 16; 7, 2fin.; Tert. Carn. Chr. 13.
* Dīvīsim, separately, Hier. Ep. 100, 14.

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