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|lshtext=<b>dīs-ĭcĭo</b>: (or dissĭcio, Lucr. 3, 639; less correctly, dis-jĭcio), jēci, jectum, 3, v. a. jacio,<br /><b>I</b> to [[throw]] [[asunder]]; to [[drive]] [[asunder]]; to [[scatter]], [[disperse]] (freq. in poets and historians, esp. [[since]] the Aug. per.; not in Cic., Plaut., or Ter.).<br /><b>I</b> In gen.: partibus disjectis disque supatis, Lucr. 1, 651; cf. id. 1, 1020: [[materies]], id. 2, 939: vis animaï ([[with]] dispertita and discissa), id. 3, 639: equi, id. 5, 400: in vasta urbe lateque omnibus disjectis moenibus, i. e. distributed, stretching [[out]] in [[various]] directions, Liv. 24, 2; cf. id. 24, 33 fin.: disjecta nube, Plin. 2, 49, 50, § 134: [[nubes]], Ov. M. 10, 179: [[nubila]], id. ib. 1, 328: membra, id. ib. 3, 724; cf.: corpora [[ponto]] ([[with]] [[age]] diversos), Verg. A. 1, 70: rates, id. ib. 1, 43; cf.: naves [[passim]], Liv. 30, 24: naves in aperta Oceani, Tac. A. 2, 23 et saep.: frontem mediam mentumque securi, Verg. A. 12, 308; cf.: [[scyphus]] in duas partes disjectus, Varr. ap. Gell. 3, 14, 3: crinem disjecta [[Venus]], [[with]] [[dishevelled]] [[hair]], Sil. 5, 203; of [[money]], to [[squander]], Val. Max. 3, 5, 2.—<br /><b>II</b> In partic.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Milit. t. t., to [[disperse]], [[scatter]], [[rout]] the [[enemy]]: ea (phalange) disjecta, Caes. B. G. 1, 25, 2; Liv. 44, 41; [[Pompeius]] ap. Cic. Att. 8, 12 B.: Sall. C. 61, 3; id. J. 50, 6; Nep. Milt. 2 al.: hostium disjecta frangere, the [[scattered]] [[enemy]], Amm. 29, 4.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Pregn., to [[dash]] to pieces, [[lay]] in ruins, [[destroy]]; to [[frustrate]], [[thwart]], [[bring]] to [[naught]].<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lit.: arcem a fundamentis, Nep. Timol. 3, 3: [[moenia]] urbium, id. ib. § 2; Ov. M. 12, 109: statuas, Suet. Caes. 75: sepulchra, id. ib. 81 al.: globum consensionis, to [[dissolve]], Nep. Att. 8, 4: pecuniam, i. e. to [[squander]], Val. Max. 3, 5, 2; cf. absol.: dide, disice, per me [[licet]], Caecil. ap. Cic. Cael. 16, 37.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Trop. (i. q. discutere, II. B. 2.): dissice compositam pacem, Verg. A. 7, 339; so, pacem, Sil. 2, 295: rem, Liv. 2, 35: consilia ducis, id. 25, 14: cogitationem regiam, Vell. 1, 10: exspectationem novarum tabularum, Suet. Caes. 42.