dissaepio

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

dis-saepĭo: (less correctly dis-sēpio), psi, ptum, 4, v. a.,
I to part off by a boundary, to separate, divide (very rare).
I Lit.: aër dissaepit colles, atque aëra montes, Lucr. 1, 998; cf. parietibus, Varr. L. L. 5, § 162 Müll.: vix ea limitibus dissaepserat omnia certis, Ov. M. 1, 69; cf.: bene dissaepti foedera mundi, Sen. Med. 335.—
   B Transf., to tear apart, tear to pieces: dissaepto aggere utitur, et truncas rupes in templa Praecipitat, Stat. Th. 10, 880.—
II Trop.: tenui sane muro dissaepiunt id quod excipiunt, *Cic. Rep. 4, 4.