dīvortĭum (noun N) : (‡
* Divertium,Inscr. Orell. 4859), , n.diverto, a separation.
* In gen.: ubi illud quod volo habebo ab illo, facile invenio, quomodo divortium et discordiam inter nos parem,Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 66 sq. (with a play on II. 1 infra): neutrubi habebo stabile stabulum, siquid divorti fuat,id. Aul. 2, 2, 56.
* Esp.
* A divorce, dissolution of marriage (by consent; opp. repudium, compulsory divorce by either party; cf. Dig. 24, 2, 2, § 1); orig. used only of the wife: uxori sit reddunda dos divortio,Plaut. Stich. 2, 1, 48; Cic. de Or. 3, 40; id. Clu. 5, 14; Plaut. Mil. 4, 4, 31; Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 7; but afterwards in gen.,Cic. Att. 12, 52, 2: et Lentulum cum Metella certe fecisse divortium,id. ib. 13, 7, 1; id. Phil. 2, 28, 69; id. de Or. 1, 40, 183; id. Top. 4, 19; id. Clu. 67; Quint. 7, 4, 11; Suet. Caes. 6 et saep.
* Trop.
* Ex communi sapientium jugo sunt doctrinarum facta divortia, etc., divisions, varieties, Cic. de Or. 3, 19, 69.
* Veris et hiemis, the time at which winter ends and spring begins, Col. 4, 27, 1.
* Alta divortia riparum, lofty opposite banks, Amm. 15, 4, 3.
* Tanto rerum divortio, opposition, inconsistency, Ap. de Mundo, p. 66, 9: anima nullum init cum sua unitate divortium,Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 6, 9.

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