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|lshtext=<b>dī-vĭdo</b>: vīsi, vīsum, 3 (<br /><b>I</b> perf. sync. divisse, Hor. S. 2, 3, 169), v. a. [[root]] vidh-, to [[part]], [[split]]; Sanscr. vidhyati, to [[penetrate]], [[whence]] vidhava; Lat. vidua.<br /><b>I</b> To [[force]] [[asunder]], [[part]], [[separate]], [[divide]] ([[very]] freq. and [[class]].; cf.: [[distribuo]], [[dispertio]]; [[findo]], [[scindo]], [[dirimo]], [[divello]], [[separo]], sejungo, [[segrego]], [[secerno]]).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> 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.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Transf.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>a</b> For distribuere, to [[divide]] [[among]] [[several]], to [[distribute]], [[apportion]]: praedam, Plaut. Rud. 4, 3, 72: [[argentum]], id. Aul. 2, 2, 3: pecudes et agros, Lucr. 5, 1109; cf. agros, Cic. Rep. 2, 18: agrum [[viritim]], id. Brut. 14, 57; cf.: bona [[viritim]], id. Tusc. 3, 20, 48: munera, vestem, [[aurum]], etc., Suet. Aug. 7 et saep.: nummos in viros, Plaut. Aul. 1, 2, 30: [[Thracia]] in Rhoemetalcen inque liberos Cotyis dividitur, Tac. A. 2, 67; cf. id. ib. 3, 38. So of distributing [[troops]] in [[any]] [[place]]: equitatum in omnes partes, Caes. B. G. 6, 43, 4: exercitum omnem [[passim]] in civitates, Liv. 28, 2; cf. id. 6, 3 fin.: Romanos in custodiam civitatium, id. 43, 19; cf. id. 37, 45 fin.; cf. also: conjuratos [[municipatim]], Suet. Caes. 14: agros [[viritim]] civibus, Cic. Rep. 2, 14; so [[with]] dat. ([[most]] freq.): agrum sordidissimo cuique, Liv. 1, 47; cf. id. 34, 32; Suet. Caes. 20 et saep.: tabellas toti Italiae, Cic. Sull. 15: praedam militibus, Sall. J. 91, 6: loca praefectis, Liv. 25, 30: duo praedia [[natis]] duobus, Hor. S. 2, 3, 169: oscula nulli, id. C. 1, 36, 6 et saep.; cf. in [[double]] [[construction]]: divisit in singulos milites trecenos aeris, [[duplex]] centurionibus, [[triplex]] equiti, Liv. 40, 59: [[inter]] participes praedam, Plaut. Pers. 5, 1, 5; so, [[inter]] se, id. Poen. 3, 5, 30; Nep. Thras. 1 fin.: per populum fumantia (liba), Ov. F. 3, 672; so, agros per veteranos, Suet. Dom. 9: dimidiam partem cum [[aliquo]], Plaut. Aul. 4, 10, 37; so id. Am. 5, 1, 73; id. Stich. 5, 4, 15: praemia [[mecum]], Ov. F. 4, 887.—Absol.: non divides ([[with]] dispertire), Plaut. Aul. 2, 4, 4; so Liv. 44, 45; Ov. M. 13, 102 al.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>b</b> In mercant. lang. [[like]] distrahere and divendere, to [[sell]] [[piecemeal]], in parcels, to [[retail]], Suet. Caes. 54; id. Ner. 26.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>c</b> In mal. [[part]]., Plaut. Aul. 2, 4, 4 Wagner; 7; cf. Petr. 11 Büch.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Trop.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In partic.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>a</b> 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.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>b</b> (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.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>c</b> 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.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>d</b> 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.<br /><b>II</b> To [[divide]], [[separate]], [[part]] from; to [[remove]] from ([[class]].).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> 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.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Trop., to [[separate]], [[distinguish]]: legem bonam a [[mala]], Cic. Leg. 1, 16, 44: defensionem (opp. se comitem exitii promittebat), Tac. A. 3, 15. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(a)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; dīvīse, [[distinctly]], [[separately]], Gell. 1, 22, 16; 7, 2 fin.; Tert. Carn. Chr. 13.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; dīvīsim, [[separately]], Hier. Ep. 100, 14.