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|lshtext=<b>dis-cerno</b>: crēvi, crētum, 3,<br /><b>I</b> v. a., to [[separate]], [[set]] [[apart]].<br /><b>I</b> Lit., to [[separate]], [[part]], [[divide]] (freq. [[since]] the Aug. per.): equas, ne [[inter]] se pugnare possint, Varr. R. R. 2, 7, 10: ordines (preceded by [[senatus]] a [[populo]] [[secretus]]), Liv. 34, 54: [[lignum]] a carnibus, Plin. 13, 4, 7, § 33: Lusitaniam a Baetica, id. 4, 21, 35, § 116: [[neque]] [[mons]] erat, qui fines eorum discerneret, i. e. to [[mark]] [[out]], [[determine]], Sall. J. 79, 3; cf. [[poet]].: ([[saxum]]) telas [[auro]], to [[interweave]] [[with]] [[gold]], Verg. A. 4, 264; 11, 75: haec ipsa [[fortuna]] huc illucve discernit, divides, distributes, Cels. 7, 3.—In the [[part]]. perf., divided, separated: duae urbes, magno [[inter]] se spatio discretae, Liv. 27, 39 fin.; cf.: [[Peraea]] a ceteris Judaeis Jordane amne, Plin. 5, 14, 15, § 70: [[Philippus]] mari [[tantum]] Ionio [[discretus]], Liv. 23, 33; so, sol tanto [[intervallo]], Plin. 2, 11, 8, § 50: [[uxor]] [[velo]], id. Ep. 4, 19, 3: [[ager]] saxo, Stat. Th. 5, 559: decurias pluribus nominibus, Plin. 33, 2, 7, § 31 et saep.— Of the [[hair]], parted: discretaque collo Caesaries, Grat. Cyn. 272: divisa discretaque [[tellus]], divided and separated, Lucr. 5, 1441: [[tellus]] (opp. permixta), id. 691: ubi discretas [[insula]] rumpit aquas, Ov. F. 2, 194: [[sedes]] piorum, [[set]] [[apart]], [[retired]], Hor. C. 2, 13, 23: quae cum sint turpissima discreta ac separata, turpius junguntur, Plin. Ep. 2, 6 fin.: [[septem]] [[discretus]] in ostia [[Nilus]], Ov. M. 5, 324 (for [[which]]: [[septem]] digestum in cornua Nilum, id. ib. 9, 774); cf. Quint. 7, 1, 1.<br /><b>II</b> Trop.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> To [[separate]] things according to [[their]] [[different]] qualities, to [[distinguish]] [[between]], [[discern]] (freq. and [[class]].): [[alba]] et atra, Cic. Tusc. 5, 39, 114: discernere et dispicere insidiatorem et [[petitum]] insidiis, Liv. 40, 10: jus et injuriam, Tac. A. 2, 66: probanda [[atque]] improbanda, Quint. 2, 2, 11: fas [[atque]] [[nefas]], Hor. C. 1, 18, 11 et saep.: id [[quod]] [[visum]] erit a [[falso]], Cic. Ac. 2, 8, 25: pantheras a pardis [[solo]] candore, Plin. 8, 17, 23, § 63 et saep.: verba discerni [[articulatim]], Lucr. 4, 555: suos, * Caes. B. G. 7, 75: piceam visu, Plin. 16, 10, 18, § 40: temperantiam duobus modis, Cic. Part. Or. 22, 77 et saep.: [[animus]] discernit, [[quid]] [[sit]] ejusdem generis, [[quid]] alterius, id. Univ. 8: pecuniae an famae [[minus]] parceret [[haud]] [[facile]] dis cerneres, Sall. C. 25, 3; so [[with]] an, Tac. A. 5, 6; id. H. 3, 28; Suet. Calig. 25; cf.: nec discernatur, jussu injussu imperatoris pugnent, Liv. 8, 34 fin.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> To [[determine]], [[settle]]: [[limes]] agro [[positus]] litem ut discerneret arvis, Verg. A. 12, 898: discerne causam meam, Vulg. Psa. 42, 1.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>C</b> To [[except]], [[omit]], Amm. 14, 8, 7.—Hence, *<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; discernen-ter, adv., [[with]] a [[distinction]], Cael. Aur. Tard. 1, 4, no. 81.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; discrētim, adv., [[separately]], [[distinctly]], App. M. 6, p. 173: [[singillatim]] ac [[discretim]], id. Flor. 9, p. 347: adoriri, Amm. 29, 6: tradi, id. 28, 1; Hilar. in Psa. 138, 23.
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