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|lshtext=<b>di-spergo</b>: in [[late]] Lat. and [[sometimes]] in MSS. of the [[older]] authors written di-[[spargo]] (cf. [[aspergo]] and [[conspergo]]), si, [[sum]], 3,<br /><b>I</b> v. a., to [[scatter]] on all sides, to [[scatter]] [[about]], [[disperse]] (freq. and [[class]]., esp. in the [[part]]. perf.).<br /><b>I</b> Lit.: per agros [[passim]] dispergit [[corpus]], Cic. Poet. N. D. 3, 26, 67; cf. per hypallagen: membrorum [[collectio]] dispersa (coupled [[with]] dissipare), id. de Imp. Pomp. 9, 22 ([[but]] in Lucr. 3, 988, the [[right]] [[reading]] is: dispessis membris, not dispersis, v. [[dispando]]): [[cur]] ([[deus]]) tam [[multa]] pestifera [[terra]] marique disperserit? id. Ac. 2, 38, 120: [[nubes]] dispergunt venti, Lucr. 5, 254: an [[tibi]] jam [[mavis]] [[cerebrum]] dispergam hic? Ter. Ad. 5, 2, 7; for [[which]]: ut cerebro dispergat viam, [[besprinkle]], id. ib. 3, 2, 19: caprae dispergunt se, [[contra]] oves so congregant et condensant in locum unum, Varr. R. R. 2, 3, 9; cf.: comites dispersi, Lucr. 4, 576; so the [[mid]].: dispersi, of persons, Cic. Fl. 13, 30; id. Sest. 42, 91; and esp. freq. of soldiers, Caes. B. G. 1, 40, 8; 3, 28, 3; id. B. C. 1, 44, 1; 2, 38, 5 et saep.; Sall. J. 98, 4, et saep.; cf.: dispersi a suis [[pars]] cedere, etc., id. ib. 51, 1; and in the [[verb]]. fin. [[act]].: quae (duo milia evocatorum) tota acie disperserat, had distributed, Caes. B. C. 3, 88, 4: fimum, Plin. 18, 23, 53, § 193: vitem traducibus dispergere [[atque]] disrarare, Col. 5, 6, 36: [[lactuca]] dispergitur, [[set]] [[out]], i. e. planted, id. 11, 3, 25: [[color]] dispergitur [[omnis]], Lucr. 2, 831 (not disperditur, v. Lachm. ad h. l.): ubi brachia et crura [[inaequaliter]] dispergit, i. e. moves at [[random]], Cels. 2, 6: [[Mesopotamia]] [[vicatim]] dispersa, i. e. divided, Plin. 6, 26, 30, § 117: magna [[pars]] Judaeae [[vicis]] dispergitur, Tac. H. 5, 8 et saep.—Poet.: [[aries]] dispergit saxa ([[with]] effundere muros), Luc. 1, 384 Cort.: dispersa capillos, id. 10, 84: quo latior (res) est, in cunctas [[undique]] partis Plura [[modo]] dispargit et ab se corpora mittit, Lucr. 2, 1135; so [[with]] in and acc., id. 1, 309; Caes. B. G. 6, 34, 1; Plin. 11, 37, 89, § 220: tripartitum exercitum [[plures]] in [[manus]], Tac. A. 3, 74 al.: aër dispargitur ad partis minutas corporis, Lucr. 4, 895.<br /><b>II</b> Trop.: in [[praesentia]] [[tantummodo]] numeros et modos et partes argumentandi [[confuse]] et [[permixte]] dispersimus: [[post]] descripte ... ex hac [[copia]] digeremus, Cic. Inv. 1, 30, 49; cf. id. de Or. 1, 42, 187; 191; Quint. 9, 3, 39: [[bellum]] tam [[longe]] lateque dispersum, Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 12, 35: in re dispersa [[atque]] infinita, Q. Cic. Pet. Cons. 1: [[plebis]] vis soluta [[atque]] dispersa in multitudine, Sall. J. 41, 6: rumorem, Tac. A. 4, 24: falsos rumores, id. H. 2, 96; and [[with]] acc. and inf.: volgus fingendi avidum disperserat accitum in adoptionem, had given [[out]], id. ib. 2, 1: [[membratim]] oportebit partis rei gestae dispergere in causam, Cic. Inv. 1, 21, 30: vitam in auras, Verg. A. 11, 617; cf.: partem voti in auras, id. ib. 795.— Hence, adv. in [[two]] forms:<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; dispersē, dispersedly, here and [[there]] ([[very]] [[rare]]): [[disperse]] et [[diffuse]] dictae res, Cic. Inv. 1, 52, 98: multis in locis dicta, id. Verr. 2, 4, 52, § 116. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; dispersim, Varr. R. R. 1, 1, 7; 3, 2, 13; Suet. Caes. 80.