dispertiō

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dis-pertĭo (in many MSS. also dis-partio, Liv. 3, 10, 9; Nep. Eum. 2), īvi or ii, ītum, 4 ( arch. inf. pass.:

dispertirier,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 26), v. a. [partio], to distribute, divide (class.).

Lit.:

dispertiti viri, dispertiti ordines,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 65:

funditores inter manipulos,

Sall. J. 49 fin.:

auxiliarios equites tribunis legionum in utrumque latus,

id. ib. 46, 7:

(conjuratos) municipiis,

Cic. Cat. 4, 4, 7:

exercitum per oppida,

Liv. 29, 1 et saep.:

opsonium hic bifariam,

Plaut. Aul. 2, 4, 3; cf. id. ib. 2, 5, 5:

secundam mensam servis,

Nep. Ages. 8, 4:

epulas trifariam, in jentacula et prandia, etc.,

Suet. Vit. 13:

pecuniam judicibus,

Cic. Clu. 25, 69: dispartiantur patris bona pari ter, Afran. Ap. Non. 374, 33:

portas et proxuma loca tribunis,

to assign as posts to be guarded, Sall. J. 59, 1 et saep.— Pass., with mid. Force:

Etiam dispertimini?

won't you part yet? Plaut. Curc. 1, 3, 33.—

Trop. (mostly in Cic.): ea quae ad mortales pertinent, quadrifariam dispertierim, in homines, in loca, in tempora, in res, Varr. Ap. Non. 92, 16; cf. Cic. De Or. 1, 42, 190; 3, 29, 114; id. Brut. 44, 162: Romani homines, qui tempora voluptatis laborisque dispertiunt, id. Mur. 35 fin.:

cum aliquo dispertitum officium est in aliqua re,

id. Fam. 5, 2:

Ceres et Libera, a quibus initia vitae atque victus, hominibus et civitatibus data ac dispertita esse dicuntur,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 72:

tot in curas dispertiti eorum animi erant,

Liv. 22, 7, 10.— Also deponent form, dis-pertion( - partior), īri:

jurisconsulti saepe quod positum est in una cognitione, id in infinita dispertiuntur,

Cic. Leg. 2, 19, 47:

administrationem inter se,

Liv. 3, 10, 9.

discrīmĭno, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [discrimen], to divide, part, separate (very rare; cf.

divido, dispertio): aliquid,

Varr. R. R. 1, 23, 4: Etruriam discriminat Cassia, * Cic. Phil. 12, 9:

late agros,

Verg. A. 11, 144:

crinem,

Vulg. Jud. 10, 3.—

Trop., to distinguish:

notae, quibus inter se similia discriminentur,

Sen. Ep. 95 fin. et saep.:

verba,

Varr. L. L. 9, § 104 Müll.—

To divide, apportion:

vigiliarum somnique tempora,

Liv. 21, 4, 6.

dī-vĭdo, vīsi, vīsum, 3 ( perf. sync. divisse, Hor. S. 2, 3, 169), v. a. [root vidh-, to part, split; Sanscr. vidhyati, to penetrate, whence vidhava; Lat. vidua].

To force asunder, part, separate, divide (very freq. and class.; cf.: distribuo, dispertio; findo, scindo, dirimo, divello, separo, sejungo, segrego, secerno).

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.—

Transf.

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.—

In mercant. lang. like distrahere and divendere, to sell piecemeal, in parcels, to retail, Suet. Caes. 54; id. Ner. 26.—

In mal. part., Plaut. Aul. 2, 4, 4 Wagner; 7; cf. Petr. 11 Büch.—

Trop.

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.—

In partic.

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.—

(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.—

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.—

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.

To divide, separate, part from; to remove from (class.).

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. —

Trop., to separate, distinguish:

legem bonam a mala,

Cic. Leg. 1, 16, 44:

defensionem (opp. se comitem exitii promittebat),

Tac. A. 3, 15. —

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.

dīvīse, distinctly, separately, Gell. 1, 22, 16; 7, 2 fin.; Tert. Carn. Chr. 13.—

dīvīsim, separately, Hier. Ep. 100, 14.

trĭbŭo, ŭi, ūtum, 3, v. a. [tribus], to assign, impart, allot, bestow, give, etc. (syn.: do, dono, largior).

Lit.:

ut ei plurimum tribuamus, a quo plurimum deligimur,

Cic. Off. 1, 15, 47:

in tribuendo suum cuique,

id. ib. 1, 5, 14:

si uni omnia tribuenda sint,

id. Imp. Pomp. 17, 52:

praemia alicui,

Caes. B. C. 3, 4; 2, 21; Hirt. B. G. 8, 46:

cujus sceleribus tanta praemia tribuistis,

Sall. H. 1, 18, 4 Dietsch:

dona nulli,

Ov. M. 9, 402; Phaedr. 1, 5, 8:

beneficia,

Nep. Att. 11, 5:

pretium aedium Aurelio,

Tac. A. 1, 75:

pecunias ex modo detrimenti,

to deal out, allot, id. ib. 4, 64. —

Trop.

In gen., to grant, give, show, pay, render:

misericordiam fortissimo viro,

Cic. Mil. 34, 92; so,

veniam alicui,

Tac. A. 12, 40:

inventoribus gratiam,

Cic. Fin. 4, 5, 13:

silentium orationi alicujus,

id. Cael. 12, 29:

quod tantum dignitatis civitati Aeduae tribuerat,

Caes. B. G. 5, 7; cf.:

sibi honorem,

id. ib. 7, 20:

mulieri honorem,

Cic. de Or. 2, 11, 44:

tibi turis honorem,

Ov. M. 14, 128:

vocabula monti,

id. ib. 14, 621:

salutem mihi,

id. H. 15 (16), 2:

parem voluntatem paribus beneficiis,

Caes. B. C. 1, 35:

pacem terris,

Ov. Tr. 3, 1, 44; Luc. 4, 358 et saep. —

In partic.

Pregn., to grant, yield, give up, concede, allow something to a person or thing (syn. concedo):

si sit quispiam, qui aliquid tribuat voluptati,

Cic. Off. 1, 30, 106:

valetudini aliquid,

id. Tusc. 1, 49, 119:

observantiam officio, non timori neque spei,

Nep. Att. 6, 5:

hoc matris precibus,

Ov. A. A. 1, 689:

aliquid rei publicae et amicitiae,

Caes. B. G. 6, 1: ego tantum tibi tribuo, quantum mihi fortasse arrogo, I yield or concede as much to you, have as high an opinion of you, Cic. Fam. 4, 1, 2:

cum senatus impediretur quo minus, id quod hostibus semper erat tributum, responsum equitibus Romanis redderetur,

id. Planc. 14, 34; cf.:

gratissimum mihi feceris, si huic commendationi meae tantum tribueris quantum cui tribuisti plurimum,

id. ib. 13, 22, 2; and:

nusquam tantum tribuitur aetati (quam Lacedaemone),

id. Sen. 18, 63:

mihi tribuebat omnia,

gave me the preference in all things, deferred in every thing to me, id. Brut. 51, 190.— Absol.:

cum universo ordini publicanorum semper libentissime tribuerim,

Cic. Fam. 13, 9, 2:

quos ne nominatim tradam, majoribus eorum tribuendum puto,

Tac. A. 14, 14 fin.:

tribus in generibus rerum versari rhetoris officium... demonstrativum est, quod tribuitur in alicujus certae personae laudem aut vituperationem,

Cic. Inv. 1, 5, 7. —

To ascribe, assign, attribute a thing to a person or thing as the cause:

aliquid virtuti hostium,

Caes. B. G. 7, 53:

aliquid juri potius quam suae culpae,

id. B. C. 3, 73:

id tribuite vestrae culpae,

Auct. Her. 4, 36, 48:

aliquid ignaviae,

Cic. Fam. 2, 16, 3:

miseriae nostrae potius quam inconstantiae tribuere quod, etc.,

id. Att. 3, 4 init. —

To set store by, with magnopere, multum, etc., to make much of:

quibus ille secundum fratrem plurimum tribuebat,

Cic. Ac. 2, 4, 12:

ne ob eam rem suae magnopere virtuti tribueret,

Caes. B. G. 1, 13.—

To divide, distribute (syn. dispertio):

rem universam in partes,

Cic. Brut. 41, 152; id. Or. 4, 16:

secundus (locus) in tempora tribuitur,

id. Inv. 1, 55, 107:

omnem vim loquendi in duas partes,

id. Fin. 2, 6, 17.—

Of time, to bestow or spend upon, devote to a thing:

comitiis omnibus perficiundis XI. dies tribuit,

Caes. B. C. 3, 2:

his rebus tantum temporis tribuit,

id. ib. 3, 78:

reliqua tempora litteris,

Nep. Att. 4, 3; id. Hann. 13, 2.—Hence, trĭbūtum, i, n., a stated payment, a contribution, tribute.

Lit. (class.):

in capita singula servorum et liberorum tributum imponebatur,

Caes. B. C. 3, 32:

a se intolerabilia tributa exigi,

Cic. Fam. 3, 7, 3:

omnes Siculi ex censu quotannis tributa conferunt,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 53, § 131:

tributa pendere,

Caes. B. G. 6, 14:

ceram in tributa praestare,

Plin. 21, 13, 45, § 77:

civitates tributis liberare,

Cic. Fam. 15, 4, 2:

tributo populo indicto,

Liv. 4, 60, 4:

imperare,

id. 23, 31, 1; 23, 48, 8; Tac. A. 2, 47; 4, 71; id. G. 43; Mart. 7, 54, 8; Val. Max. 4, 3, 8; 8, 3, 3.—In the ante-class. collat. form trĭbūtus, i, m.: cum tributus exigeretur, Cato ap. Non. 229, 11:

tributus cum imperatus est,

Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 43 sq. —

Transf.

A contribution made for any private purpose (jurid. Lat.), Dig. 14, 2, 2; 14, 2, 4; 14, 4, 5.—

A gift, present ( poet.):

Saturnalicium,

Mart. 10, 17, 1:

praestare tributa clientes cogimur,

Juv. 3, 188; Stat. S. 1, 4, 86.