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|lshtext=<b>dif-fĕro</b>: distŭli, dīlātum, differre (<br /><b>I</b> inf. differrier, Lucr. 1, 1088. In tmesi: disque tulissent, Plaut. Trin. 4, 1, 14), v. a. and n.<br /><b>I</b> Act., to [[carry]] [[different]] ways; to [[spread]] [[abroad]], [[scatter]], [[disperse]], [[separate]] (cf.: reicere, proferre, procrastinare, producere, ampliare, prorogare—[[class]].).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Lit.: scintillas agere ac [[late]] differre favillam, Lucr. 2, 675; cf.: favillam [[longe]] ([[ventus]]), id. 6, 692: [[nubila]] (vis venti), id. 1, 273; Verg. G. 3, 197: ignem ([[ventus]]), Caes. B. C. 2, 14, 2: casae venti magnitudine ignem distulerunt, id. B. G. 5, 43, 2: majorem partem [[classis]] (vis Africi), Vell. 2, 79, 2: rudentes fractosque remos (Eurus), Hor. Epod. 10, 6 et saep.; cf. Plaut. Trin. 4, 1, 14: nos cum [[scapha]] [[tempestas]] dextrovorsum Differt ab illis, id. Rud. 2, 3, 39; cf. Lucr. 1, 1088: cytisum, to [[plant]] [[apart]], in [[separate]] rows = disserere, digerere, Varr. R. R. 1, 43; Col. 11, 3, 30 sq.; 38; 42 al.; cf.: ulmos in [[versum]], Verg. G. 4, 144: ut formicae [[frustillatim]] (te) differant, Plaut. Curc. 4, 4, 20; cf.: insepulta membra (lupi), Hor. Epod. 5, 99; and: Mettum in diversa ([[quadrigae]]), Verg. A. 8, 643. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Trop.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To [[distract]], [[disquiet]], [[disturb]] a [[person]] ([[only]] [[ante]]-[[class]].): vorsor in amoris [[rota]] [[miser]], Exanimor, feror, differor, distrahor, diripior, Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 5: differor clamore, id. Ep. 1, 2, 15: cupidine ejus, id. Poen. 1, 1, 28; cf.: amore istius, id. Mil. 4, 4, 27: [[laetitia]], id. Truc. 4, 1, 3: doloribus, Ter. Ad. 3, 4, 40.—Less freq. [[act]].: aliquem dictis, to [[confound]], Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 125; cf. Ter. And. 2, 4, 5 Ruhnk.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To [[spread]] [[abroad]], [[publish]], [[divulge]]; [[with]] a [[personal]] [[object]], to [[cry]] [[down]], to [[defame]] ([[mostly]] anteclass. and [[post]]-Aug.; not in Cic., Caes., or Sall.).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(a)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With acc. rei: cum de me ista [[foris]] sermonibus differs, Lucil. ap. Non. 284, 16; cf.: rumores famam differant licebit nosque carpant, Varr. ib. 18: commissam libertatem [[populo]] Rom. sermonibus, Liv. 34, 49: [[promissum]] jus anulorum [[fama]] distulit, Suet. Caes. 33.—With acc. and inf.: ne mi hanc famam differant, Me dedidisse, etc., Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 63; Ter. Heaut. prol. 16; Nep. [[Dion]]. 10; Val. Fl. 1, 753.—With [[quasi]] and [[dependent]] [[clause]]: rumore ab obtrectatoribus [[dilato]], [[quasi]] eundem mox et discruciatum necasset, Suet. Aug. 14 et saep.—Pass. impers.: quo pertinuit differri [[etiam]] per externos, [[tamquam]] [[veneno]] [[interceptus]] esset, Tac. A. 3, 12; cf. id. ib. 4, 25.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With acc. pers.: aliquem pipulo, Plaut. Aul. 3, 2, 32 (cf. Varr. L. L. 7, § 103 Müll., and see [[pipulum]]): aliquem maledicendo sermonibus, Lucil. ap. Non. 284, 24: dominos variis rumoribus, Tac. A. 1, 4: te [[circum]] omnes [[alias]] puellas, to [[bring]] [[into]] [[disrepute]] [[with]] [[them]], Prop. 1, 4, 22.—In the [[pass]].: differor sermone [[miser]], Caecil. ap. Gell. 2, 93, 10: alterna differor [[invidia]], Prop. 1, 16, 48.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>3</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With [[reference]] to [[time]], to [[defer]], [[put]] [[off]], [[protract]], [[delay]] [[any]] [[thing]]; [[with]] a [[personal]] [[object]] also to [[put]] [[off]], [[amuse]] [[with]] promises, [[get]] [[rid]] of ([[class]]. and [[very]] freq.).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(a)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With acc. rei: [[cetera]] praesenti sermoni reserventur: hoc [[tamen]] non [[queo]] differre, etc., Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 8: differre [[quotidie]] ac procrastinare rem, id. Rosc. Am. 9 fin.: [[saepe]] vadimonia, id. Quint. 5 fin.: [[iter]] in [[praesentia]], Caes. B. C. 3, 85, 4: pleraque ([[with]] omittere in [[praesens]] [[tempus]]), Hor. A. P. 44: distulit ira sitim, Ov. M. 6, 366 et saep.: differri jam [[hora]] non potest, Cic. Phil. 6, 7, 19: [[tempus]], id. ib. 8, 8; id. Prov. Cons. 11 fin.; Liv. 3, 46; Ov. M. 1, 724 al.: diem de [[die]], Liv. 25, 25 et saep.—With inf.: quaerere distuli, Hor. Od. 4, 4, 21; so Liv. 42, 2 ([[but]] not Suet. Caes. 81, [[where]] agere belongs to proposuerat, cf. id. Aug. 72; id. Calig. 49).—With [[quin]]: [[nihil]] dilaturi, [[quin]] [[periculum]] summae rerum facerent, Liv. 6, 22 fin.; so Suet. Caes. 4; [[with]] in and acc.: reliqua in crastinum, Cic. Rep. 2, 44 fin.: in posterum diem, id. Deiot. 7, 21; cf. Caes. B. C. 1, 65 fin.: in posterum, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 32; Caes. B. G. 7, 11, 5: in aliud [[tempus]], Cic. Brut. 87; Caes. B. C. 1, 86, 2: in adventum tuum, Cic. Fam. 2, 3 fin.: diem edicti in a. d. IV. Kal. Dec., id. Phil. 3, 8, 20: curandi [[tempus]] in annum, Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 39 et saep. —Poet.: tropaea in pueros suos, to [[reserve]] for, Prop. 4, 6, 82.—Rarely [[with]] ad: aliquid ad crudelitatis [[tempus]], Cic. Vat. 11 fin.; cf. the foll.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With acc. pers.: [[sin]] [[autem]] differs me in [[tempus]] aliud, Cic. Fam. 5, 12, 10; Liv. 26, 51; 41, 8: differri non posse [[adeo]] concitatos animos, id. 7, 14: [[dilatus]] per frustrationem, id. 25, 25; cf.: aliquem variis frustrationibus, Just. 9, 6 fin.: Campanos, Liv. 26, 33: aliquem petentem, Suet. Vesp. 23 Ern.: [[caros]] amicos (opp. properare), Mart. 13, 55 et saep.— Poet.: vivacem anum, to [[preserve]] [[alive]], i. e. to [[postpone]] her [[death]], Ov. M. 13, 519; cf.: decimum [[dilatus]] in annum (belli) [[Hector]] erat, id. ib. 12, 76: aliquem in spem impetrandi [[tandem]] honoris, Liv. 39, 32: aliquem in [[septimum]] diem, Suet. Tib. 32; id. Caes. 82 Oud.; id. Aug. 44 fin. et saep.— Rarely [[with]] ad: legati ad novos [[magistratus]] dilati, Liv. 41, 8: aliquem ad finem muneris, Suet. Vit. 12: quas (legationes) [[par]] tim [[dato]] [[responso]] ex itinere dimisit, [[partim]] distulit Tarraconem, Liv. 26, 51.—Once [[with]] [[post]]: aliquid [[post]] [[bellum]] differre, Liv. 4, 6, 4.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(g)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Absol. Prov.: [[differ]]; habent parvae commoda magna morae, Ov. F. 3, 394.<br /><b>II</b> Neut., to [[differ]], be [[different]] (esp. freq. [[since]] the Ciceron. [[period]]—cf.: discrepare, distare, interesse): qui re consentientes vocabulis differebant, Cic. Fin. 4, 2 fin.; cf.: naturis differunt, voluntate [[autem]] similes sunt, id. de Or. 2, 23: verbo differre, re esse unum, id. Caecin. 21, 59: distare aliquid aut ex [[aliqua]] parte differre, id. ib. 14: [[nihil]] aut non [[fere]] [[multum]] differre, id. Brut. 40 fin.: [[paulum]] differre, id. Agr. 2, 31, 85 et saep.: nec [[quicquam]] differre, utrumne ... an, etc., Hor. S. 2, 3, 251; cf.: [[quid]] [[enim]] differt, barathrone Dones [[quicquid]] habes, an? etc., id. ib. 166.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With ab: ita ut [[pauxillum]] differat a cavillulis, Plaut. Truc. 3, 2, 18: [[quidnam]] esset illud, quo ipsi (poëtae) differrent ab oratoribus, Cic. Or. 19, 66; id. Off. 1, 27 fin.: [[quid]] hoc ab [[illo]] differt? id. Caecin. 14: non [[multum]] ab hostili expugnatione, id. de Imp. Pomp. 5 fin.: [[multum]] a Gallica consuetudine, Caes. B. G. 5, 14; cf. ib. 6, 21; 6, 28, 5: hoc [[fere]] ab reliquis differunt, [[quod]], etc., id. ib. 6, 18, 3 et saep.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(g)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With [[inter]] (esp. impers.): si [[nihil]] [[inter]] deum et deum differt, Cic. N. D. 1, 29, 80; id. Off. 1, 28, 99; id. Fin. 4, 25, 70: nequid [[inter]] privatum et magistratum differat, id. Rep. 1, 43: ut non [[multum]] differat [[inter]] summos et mediocres viros, id. Off. 2, 8, 30: [[multa]] sunt [[alia]], quae [[inter]] locum et locum plurimum differunt (for [[which]], [[shortly]] [[before]], [[inter]] locorum naturas [[quantum]] intersit), id. Fat. 4: haec cogitatione [[inter]] se differunt, re [[quidem]] copulata sunt, id. Tusc. 4, 11: [[inter]] se [[aliqua]] re, id. Opt. gen. 2, 6; id. N. D. 1, 7, 16; Caes. B. G. 1, 1, 2; 6, 11, 1; Quint. 12, 10, 22; 34; 67 et saep.: quae [[quidem]] [[inter]] se plurimum differunt, id. 5, 14, 27.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(d)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Rarely [[with]] cum: [[occasio]] cum tempore hoc differt, Cic. Inv. 1, 27: hoc [[genus]] causae cum superiore hoc differt, [[quod]], etc., id. ib. 2, 30, 92 Orell. N. cr.—（ε) Likewise [[rarely]], differre in [[aliqua]] re, Lucr. 3, 314; Nep. Ages. 7 fin.—（ζ) Rarely, and [[only]] [[poet]]. or in [[post]]-Aug. [[prose]], [[with]] dat.: [[quod]] pede [[certo]] Differt sermoni [[sermo]] [[merus]], Hor. S. 1, 4, 48: tragico differre colori, id. A. P. 236; Quint. 2, 21, 10; Plin. 9, 35, 54, § 107; cf. id. 9, 8, 7, § 23.—Hence, diffĕ-rens, entis, P. a., [[different]], [[superior]]: differentius [[nomen]], a [[more]] [[excellent]] [[name]], Vulg. Heb. 1, 4; in Quintilian subst. n. (opp. proprium), a [[difference]], Quint. 5, 10, 55; 58; 6, 3, 66; 7, 3, 3; 25 sq.—*Adv.: diffĕren-ter, [[differently]], Sol. 1.