dimidio: Difference between revisions

|lshtext=<b>dīmĭdĭo</b>: no<br /><b>I</b> perf., ātum, 1, v. a. [[dimidius]], to [[divide]] [[into]] [[two]] [[equal]] parts, to [[halve]] (as a [[finite]] [[verb]], [[very]] [[rare]]): [[quid]] dimidias Christum? Tert. de Carn. Chr. 5.— Trop.: viri dolosi non dimidiabunt [[dies]] suos, i. e. shall not [[live]] [[half]] the [[life]] of men, Vulg. Psa. 54, 23; cf. also, id. Job, 21, 21; [[but]] freq. and [[class]]. in the perf. [[part]]. dīmĭ-dĭātus, halved, [[half]] (acc. to Varr. ap. Gell. 3, 14, 19, applied to a [[whole]], [[which]] is divided [[into]] halves; [[whereas]] [[dimidius]] is applied to a [[half]]; or, as [[Gellius]] [[rightly]] explains it, dimidiatum [[nisi]] ipsum, [[quod]] divisum est, dici [[haud]] convenit; [[dimidium]] [[vero]] est, non [[quod]] ipsum dimidiatum est, sed quae ex dimidiato [[pars]] altera est; cf. [[however]], [[dimidius]], I.): homines dimidiati, [[Cato]] ap. Gell. l. l.; cf. id. R. R. 151, 3; and [[comic]].: procellunt [[sese]] in mensam dimidiati ([[with]] [[half]] the [[body]]), dum appetunt, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 165; cf. also, transf.: [[dies]] [[quidem]] jam ad umbilicum est [[dimidiatus]] [[mortuus]], id. Men. 1, 2, 45: [[luna]], [[Cato]] ap. Plin. 16, 39, 75, § 194; cf. [[mensis]], Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 52; id. Tusc. 2, 16: vas vini, Enn. ap. Gell. l. l.: [[porcus]], Lucil. ib.; cf. Suet. Tib. 34: [[solea]], Lucil. ap. Gell. l. l.: librum, fabulam legi, Varr. ib.; cf.: exesis posterioribus partibus versiculorum, dimidiatis [[fere]], Cic. Tusc. 5, 23, 66; so the [[comic]] [[verse]] [[respecting]] Terence: tu [[quoque]], tu in summis, o dimidiate [[Menander]], etc., Caes. ap. Suet. Vita Ter. fin.