dis-sĭdĕo

dis-sĭdĕo, ēdi, essum, 2, v. n. [sedeo], to sit apart, to be remote from, to be divided, separated.

Lit. (only poet. and very rare):

quantum Hypanis dissidet Eridano,

Prop. 1, 12, 4: sceptris nostris, *Verg. A. 7, 370:

ab omni dissidet turba procul Laïus,

Sen. Oed. 618; Sil. 7, 736.—Far more freq. and class.,

Trop., to be at variance, to disagree, to think differently. —Constr. with ab, cum, inter se, or absol.

With ab:

nullam esse gentem tam dissidentem a populo Romano odio quodam atque discidio,

Cic. Balb. 13, 30; cf. id. Verr. 2, 5, 71; id. Lael. 1, 2:

a senatu,

id. Brut. 62, 223:

a tribuno plebis (consules),

id. Sest. 19, 44:

a Pompeio in tantis rebus,

id. Att. 7, 6, 2:

a nobis (altera pars senatus),

id. Rep. 1, 19 et saep.:

non verbis Stoicos a Peripateticis, sed universa re et tota sententia dissidere,

id. Fin. 4, 1, 2; cf. id. ib. 4, 2, 3:

animus a se ipse dissidens secumque discordans,

id. ib. 1, 18, 58:

Archytas iracundiam, videlicet dissidentem a ratione, seditionem quandam animi vere dicebat,

id. Rep. 1, 38; cf. id. Off. 2, 2, 8:

ab ingenio matris,

Ov. H. 7, 36 et saep.—

With inter se:

leviter inter se dissident,

Cic. Att. 1, 13, 2:

cupiditates in animis inclusae inter se dissident atque discordant,

id. Fin. 1, 13, 44; cf. id. N. D. 1, 2 fin. —

With cum:

cum Cleanthe, doctore suo, quam multis rebus Chrysippus dissidet,

Cic. Ac. 2, 47, 143; cf.:

non cum homine, sed cum causa,

id. Phil. 11, 6, 15.—

With dat.:

virtus dissidens plebi,

Hor. C. 2, 2, 18.—

With abl. manner:

ex quo facile intellectu est verbis eos, non re dissidere,

Cic. Fat. 19, 44:

capitali odio,

id. Lael. 1, 2.—

Absol.:

de qua (definitione summi boni) qui dissident, de omni vitae ratione dissident,

Cic. Ac. 2, 43, 132; id. Leg. 1, 20, 53 (opp. congruae):

cum Julia primo concorditer et amore mutuo vixit, mox dissedit,

he fell out with her, Suet. Tib. 7:

Medus dissidet armis,

Hor. C. 3, 8, 20; cf.:

dissidet miles,

Tac. A. 1, 46:

dissident olores et aquilae,

live at enmity, Plin. 10, 74, 95, § 203 et saep.:

spes incesserat dissidere hostem in Arminium ac Segestem,

i. e. were divided into two factions, that of Arminius and Segestes, Tac. A. 1, 55.— Pass. impers.:

histriones, propter quos dissidebatur,

Suet. Tib. 37.—

Of inanimate and abstract subjects in gen., to be unlike, dissimilar, different, various; to differ, disagree.

With a:

nostra non multum a Peripateticis dissidentia,

Cic. Off. 1, 1, 2; cf.: scriptum a sententia, id. de Or. 1, 31, 140:

gestus a voce,

Quint. 11, 3, 165 al. —

With cum:

voluntas scriptoris cum scripto,

Auct. Her. 2, 9, 1:

verba cum sententia scriptoris,

Cic. Inv. 1, 13 init. —

Absol.:

si inaequalitate dissident (supercilia),

Quint. 11, 3, 79:

supercilia dissidentia (opp. constricta),

id. 1, 11, 10; cf.:

si toga dissidet impar,

i. e. sits uneven, one-sided, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 96 (cf. the opp. aequaliter sedet, Quint. 11, 3, 141):

si duo haec verba idem significant, neque ulla re aliqua dissident,

Gell. 13, 24, 4.