asunder

* * *

abruptĭo, ōnis, f. [abrumpo], a breaking or tearing off, a rending asunder.

Lit.: corrigiae, of a shoe-latchet, * Cic. Div. 2, 40, 84.—

Trop.: augurii, interruption, Paul. ex Fest. pp. 270 and 271 Müll. —Of divorce, Att. ap. Cic. Att. 11, 3, 1.

ab-scindo, cĭdi, cissum, 3, v. a., to tear off or away, to rend away (v. preced. art.).

Lit.:

tunicam a pectore abscidit,

he tore the tunic down from his breast, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 1:

cervicibus fractis caput abscidit,

cut off, id. Phil. 11, 5.—With simple abl.:

umeris abscindere vestem,

Verg. A. 5, 685; with de, id. G. 2, 23:

nec quidquam deus abscidit terras,

torn asunder, separated, Hor. C. 1, 3, 21; cf. Verg. A. 3, 418; Ov. M. 1, 22 al.:

venas,

to open the veins, Tac. A. 15, 69; 16, 11.—

Trop., to cut off, separate, divide (rare):

reditus dulces,

to cut off, Hor. Epod. 16, 35:

inane soldo,

to separate, id. S. 1, 2, 113:

querelas alicujus,

Val. Fl. 2, 160:

jus,

Dig. 28, 2, 9, § 2.

dif-findo, fĭdi, fissum (also diffīsum), 3, v. a., to cleave asunder, to divide (rare but class.).

Lit.:

vitem mediam per medullam,

Cato R. R. 41, 2: malos, Enn. ap. Non. 114, 7 (Ann. v. 389 ed. Vahl., where the read. is, as in Non., defindunt):

ramum,

Varr. R. R. 1, 40 fin.:

terram,

Lucr. 6, 584:

saxum,

Cic. Div. 1, 13 fin.:

semen compressu suo (terra),

id. de Sen. 15, 51:

natem,

Hor. S. 1, 8, 47:

tempora plumbo,

Verg. A. 9, 589; Suet. Gram. 11 et saep.— Poet.:

urbium portas muneribus,

i. e. to open, Hor. C. 3, 16, 13.—

Transf., with an abstr. object:

conjunctionem duplicem in longitudinem,

Cic. Univ. 7.—

Trop.

In gen.: equidem nihil hinc diffindere possum, I cannot cut off aught of this, i. e. I can refute or deny no part of it, Hor. S. 2, 1, 79:

cuneus rigentem servi tenacitatem violenter diffinderet,

to break by a bribe, App. M. 9, p. 225.—Esp. freq.,

Diem, jurid. t. t., lit., to break off a matter, i. e. to put off to the following day, to defer (cf. differre), Dig. 2, 11, 2, § 3: triste [p. 576] omen diem diffidit, Liv. 9, 38, 15; Gell. 14, 2, 11.—

Transf.:

diem somno,

to divide by taking a nap, Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 5.

dī-grĕdĭor, gressus, 3, v. dep. n. [gradior], to go apart or asunder, to separate, part; to go away, depart, = discedere (class.).

Lit.:

luna tum congrediens cum sole, tum digrediens,

Cic. N. D. 2, 40, 103; cf.:

digredimur paulum rursumque ad bella coimus,

Ov. M. 9, 42:

ita utrique digrediuntur,

Sall. J. 22 fin.; cf.:

digredimur flentes,

Ov. H. 18, 117:

ubi digressi,

Verg. A. 4, 80.—With term. a quo:

numquam est a me digressus,

Cic. Sull. 12:

ab aliquo,

id. Fam. 4, 12; 12, 18; id. Att. 3, 9; Caes. B. C. 1, 57, 4; Sall. J. 18, 11; Liv. 22, 7 al.; cf.:

a marito,

to abandon, Suet. Caes. 43:

a colloquio Caninii,

Caes. B. C. 1, 26, 4; Liv. 39, 35:

a Corcyra,

id. 42, 37:

ex eo loco,

Caes. B. C. 1, 72, 4; cf.:

ex colloquio,

Liv. 35, 38:

domo,

Sall. J. 79, 7:

triclinio,

Suet. Ner. 43; cf. id. Aug. 74:

inde,

id. Tib. 6 al. — Absol.:

hos ego digrediens lacrimis affabar obortis,

Verg. A. 3, 492; cf. id. 5, 650; Tac. A. 1, 27; id. H. 3, 69 al.:

dein statim digrediens,

stepping aside, Sall. J. 94, 2 Kritz. —With term. ad quem:

ambo in sua castra digressi,

Sall. J. 109, 3; Tac. A. 4, 74; 6, 1; cf.:

in urbem ad capessendos magistratus,

id. Agr. 6:

ad sua tutanda,

id. A. 4, 73; Front. Strat. 1, 4, 3:

Seleuciam,

Tac. A. 2, 69:

domum,

id. ib. 2, 30:

digredientem eum cum Caesare circumsistunt,

id. ib. 1, 27.

Trop., to go aside, deviate, depart. —With term. a quo: nos nostro officio nihil digressos esse.

Ph. 4, 5, 10.—

Esp., in speaking or writing, to digress (but de-gredi, which is sometimes found in edd. in this sense is incorrect, v. h. v.):

digredi ab eo, quod proposueris,

Cic. de Or. 2, 77, 311:

parumper a causa,

id. Brut. 93 [p. 579] fin.:

de causa,

id. Inv. 1, 51 fin.:

ex eo et regredi in id,

Quint. 10, 6, 5.— Absol.:

saepe datur ad commovendos animos digrediendi locus,

Cic. de Or. 2, 77, 312; so ib. 2, 19, 80; Quint. 3, 11, 26; 4, 3, 17:

verum huc longius, quam voluntas fuit, ab epistola Timarchidi digressa est oratio mea,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 69 fin.:

sed eo jam, unde huc digressi sumus, revertamur,

id. N. D. 3, 23 fin.; cf. id. Brut. 87 fin.; Quint. 2, 4, 15.

dī-lābor, lapsus, 3, v. dep. n., to fall asunder, go to pieces, melt away, dissolve (class.).

Lit.

In gen.:

glacies liquefacta et dilapsa,

Cic. N. D. 2, 10, 26; cf.

nix,

Liv. 21, 36, 6:

nebula,

id. 41, 2, 4:

calor,

Verg. A. 4, 705:

Vulcanus (i. e. ignis),

Hor. S. 1, 5, 73:

aestus,

Tac. A. 14, 32 et saep.—Of a river, to flow apart, flow away, hoc quasi rostro finditur Fibrenus, et divisus aequaliter... rapideque dilapsus cito in unum confluit, Cic. Leg. 2, 3, 6:

amnis presso in solum alveo dilabitur,

Curt. 5, 4, 8; cf. Mütz. ad h. 1.— Poet.:

ungula in quinos dilapsa ungues,

divided, Ov. M. 1, 742:

(Proteus) in aquas tenues dilapsus abibit,

melting, Verg. G. 4, 410.—

In partic.

In the historians, of persons, esp. of soldiers, to move away in different directions, to flee, escape, scatter, disperse:

exercitus amisso duce brevi dilabitur,

Sall. J. 18, 3;

so,

absol., id. C. 57, 1; Nep. Eum. 3, 4; Liv. 9, 45; Front. Strat. 2, 1, 18 al.— With ab:

ab signis,

Liv. 23, 18; cf. id. 37, 20.—With ex or e, Liv. 6, 17; 24, 46, 4.— With in:

in oppida,

Liv. 8, 29; cf. id. 21, 32; 40, 33; Front. Strat. 3, 8, 3.—With ad, Suet. Calig. 48; Front. Strat. 3, 6, 3:

domum,

id. ib. 2, 12 fin.:

ab eo,

desert, Vulg. 1 Reg. 13, 8.—

Pregn., to tumble down, i. e. to fall to pieces, go to decay:

monumenta virum dilapsa,

Lucr. 5, 312;

so of buildings,

Liv. 4, 20 Drak.; Tac. A. 4, 43; id. H. 1, 68; 86 fin. al.:

navis putris vetustate,

Liv. 35, 26:

supellex,

Col. 12, 3, 5:

cadavera tabo,

Verg. G. 3, 557; cf.:

corpora foeda,

Ov. M. 7, 550:

fax in cineres,

Hor. C. 4, 13, 28 et saep.

Trop. (acc. to I. B. 2.), to go to decay, go to ruin, perish, be lost: male parta male dilabuntur, like our light come, light go, Poëta ap. Cic. Phil. 2, 27 (for which, disperire, Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 22):

ne omnia dilabantur, si unum aliquod effugerit,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 5, 10:

praeclarissime constituta, respublica,

id. Off. 2, 23, 80:

res familiaris,

id. ib. 2, 18, 64:

divitiae, vis corporis, etc.,

Sall. J. 2, 2:

res maxumae (opp. crescere),

id. ib. 10, 6:

omnis invidia,

id. ib. 27, 2:

tempus,

i. e. to slip away, id. ib. 36, 4:

vectigalia publica negligentiā,

i. e. to fall into confusion, Liv. 33, 46 fin.:

curae inter nova gaudia,

to vanish, Ov. P. 4, 4, 21 et saep.:

sunt alii plures fortasse, sed meā memoriā dilabuntur,

vanish, Cic. Phil. 13, 5, 11.—

Of time, to glide away, pass:

dilapso tempore,

Sall. J. 36, 4.

dĭrĭmo, ēmi, emptum ( perf. dirempsi, cited as error, Charis. 220 P.), 3, v. a. [disĕmo, like diribeo, from dis-habeo], to take apart; to part, separate, divide (class.; esp. freq. in the trop. sense—cf.: findo, scindo, divello, separo, sejungo, segrego, secerno).

Lit.:

dirimi corpus distrahive,

Cic. N. D. 3, 12; cf. Lucr. 6, 1075:

Tiberis Veientem agrum a Crustumino dirimens,

Plin. 3, 5, 9, § 53; cf.:

castris Ilerdam,

Luc. 4, 33: sontes justis (Minos), Claud. ap. Rufin. 2, 477:

oppida nostra unius diei itinere dirimuntur,

are separated from each other, Plin. Ep. 6, 8, 2; cf.:

urbs Vulturno flumine dirempta,

Liv. 22, 15; and:

dirempta mari gens,

Plin. Pan. 32; and absol.:

dirimente amne,

Liv. 42, 39 et saep.— Poet., of cutting through the waves in a ship, Stat. Th. 5, 482.

Trop.

To break off, interrupt, to disturb, put off, delay (the fig. is taken from combatants who are parted asunder; transferred, like the opp. committere, to things; cf.:

dirimere infestas acies, dirimere iras,

Liv. 1, 13):

proelium tandem diremit nox,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 99; so,

proelium,

Caes. B. C. 1, 40 fin.; Sall. J. 60 fin.; Liv. 37, 32; Verg. A. 5, 467 al.; cf. Plin. Ep. 4, 9, 9:

pugnam,

Liv. 27, 13:

bellum,

id. 27, 30; 40, 52; Verg. A. 12, 79:

certamina,

Ov. M. 5, 314 et saep.:

controversiam,

i. e. to adjust, compose, Cic. Off. 3, 33, 119:

seditionem,

Front. Strat. 1, 8, 6:

litem,

Ov. M. 1, 21:

rem arbitrio,

id. F. 6, 98 et saep.; also, to separate, dissolve, break off a connection:

conjunctionem civium,

Cic. Off. 3, 5, 23:

societatem,

id. Sull. 2, 6; Liv. 8, 23:

nuptias,

Suet. Caes. 43:

affinitatem,

Tac. A. 12, 4:

amicitias,

id. ib. 6, 29; cf. Cic. Lael. 10, 34:

caritatem quae est inter natos et parentes,

id. ib. 8, 27:

pacem,

Liv. 9, 8; Quint. 2, 16, 7:

conubium,

Liv. 4, 6 et saep.—So too, to interrupt, disturb, break up a conversation, deliberation, etc.:

colloquium,

Caes. B. G. 1, 46, 4:

sermonem,

Cic. Rep. 1, 11:

concilia populi,

Liv. 1, 36 fin.:

comitia,

id. 40, 59 al.; cf. absol.:

actum est eo die nihil: nox diremit,

Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 13, 2.—

In gen., to destroy, frustrate, bring to naught:

natura animaï morte dirempta,

Lucr. 1, 114:

auspicium,

Liv. 8, 23 fin.; cf.:

rem susceptam,

Cic. Leg. 2, 12, 31: dirimere [p. 585] tempus et proferre diem, id. Div. 1, 39, 85:

ea res consilium diremit,

Sall. C. 18 fin.— Absnl., to dissuade, to be unfavorable:

dirimen tibus auspicibus,

Amm. 14, 10, 9.

dī-rĭpĭo, ŭi, eptum, 3, v. a. [rapio], to tear asunder, tear in pieces (class.).

In gen. (rarely):

Pentheum diripuisse aiunt Bacchas,

Plaut. Merc. 2, 4, 1:

Hippolytum (equi),

Ov. A. A. 1, 338; id. F. 5, 310:

nec opinantes (leae),

Lucr. 5, 1319:

membra manibus nefandis,

Ov. M. 3, 731 et saep.:

venti diripiunt fretum,

Stat. Th. 5, 367. —

In partic.

Milit. t. t., to lay waste, ravage, spoil, plunder an enemy's territory or possessions (so most freq.):

bona alicujus,

Caes. B. G. 7, 3, 1; 7, 42, 3; 7, 43, 2:

magnum numerum frumenti commeatusque,

id. ib. 7, 38, 9:

impedimenta,

id. ib. 2, 17, 3:

naves more praedonum,

id. B. C. 3, 112, 3:

praedas bellicas,

Sall. J. 41, 7 et saep.:

oppidum,

Caes. B. C. 1, 21, 2; 3, 80 fin.:

urbes,

Liv. 37, 32 fin.:

tecta,

id. 5, 41:

templa hostiliter,

id. 37, 21; cf.:

castra hostiliter,

id. 2, 14; and:

oppida hostiliter,

Suet. Caes. 54:

civitates,

Caes. B. C. 3, 31 fin.:

provincias,

Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 19, 57:

patriam,

id. Att. 8, 2, 3 et saep.—

With personal objects:

Eburones,

Caes. B. G. 6, 34, 8; 6, 35, 4:

Lusitanos,

Nep. Cato, 3, 4:

ab hostibus diripi,

Caes. B. G. 7, 8, 4; cf. id. B. C. 2, 12, 4 al.—

Transf. beyond the milit. sphere, to destroy, to rob:

(Harpyiae) diripiunt dapes,

Verg. A. 3, 227:

supellectilem,

Suet. Ner. 11.—

To struggle, strive, contend for a thing (post-Aug.):

talos jecit in medium, quos pueri diripere coeperant,

Quint. 6, 1, 47: editum librum, to buy up rapidly, Suet. Vita Pers. fin. —Of persons:

diripitur ille toto foro patronus,

Sen. Brev. Vit. 7; so,

Timagenem, id. de Ira, 3, 23: Homerum (urbes),

Stat. Silv. 5, 3, 131:

matrem avidis complexibus ambo,

id. Th. 5, 722:

te potentiores per convivia,

Mart. 7, 76.—

To tear away, snatch away:

direpto ex capite regni insigni et lacerata veste,

Curt. 7, 5, 24:

ferrum a latere,

Tac. A. 1, 35; Hor. C. 3, 5, 21 Stallb. (al. derepta). —

Trop., of the mind and feelings, to distract, distress:

differor, distrahor, diripior,

Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 5.

dī-rumpo or disr-, rūpi, ruptum, 3, v. a., to break or dash to pieces; to break, burst asunder (rare but class.).

Lit.:

tabulā caput,

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 37:

ne medius disrumpar miser,

id. Curc. 2, 1, 7:

cum se in nubem induerint (venti) ejusque tenuissimam quamque partem coeperint dividere atque disrumpere,

Cic. Div. 2, 19, 44:

imagines,

Tac. H. 1, 55: homo diruptus, i. e. that has a rupture (c. c. dirutus), Cic. Phil. 13, 12.—In an obscene sense, Plaut. Cas. 4, 3, 11 al.—

Trop.

To break off, sunder, sever:

amicitias exorsa aliqua offensione dirumpimus,

Cic. Lael. 22 fin.; cf.:

humani generis societatem,

id. Off. 3, 5, 21:

regnum,

Vulg. 3 Reg. 11, 11.—And in a figure borrowed from a play (in which two persons tugged at the ends of a rope until it broke, or one of them fell to the ground):

cave dirumpatis, i. e. the rope or thread of your recollection,

Plaut. Poen. prol. 117.— Esp. freq.,

Pass. in colloquial lang., to burst with envy, etc.:

unum omnia posse dirumpuntur ii qui, etc.,

Cic. Att. 4, 16, 10; cf.:

infinito fratris tui plausu dirumpitur,

id. Fam. 12, 2, 2:

dirumpor dolore,

id. Att. 7, 12, 3; cf.

risu,

App. M. 3, p. 130, 3.—Once act.: dirupi me paene, I nearly burst myself with earnest speaking, Cic. Fam. 7, 1, 4.

dīs, dītis, adj., rich, v. dives.

Dīs, ītis (nom. Dītis, Petr. Poët. 120, 76; Quint. 1, 6, 34; cf. Serv. Verg. A. 6, 273; the nom. Dis very rare in the poets; Aus. Idyl. 12: de deis, 3), m. [cf.: dīus, divus, deus], orig. denoting godhead, deity, in general, and of Jupiter in partic.; cf.: Diespiter and Diovis = Juppiter; afterwards exclusively as the designation of the god of the infernal regions, the Greek Pluto, connected with pater, Varr. L. L. 5, § 66 Müll.; identified by Caesar with the Celtic god of night, cf. Caes. B. G. 6, 18, 1 sq.; Cic. N. D. 2, 26; Tac. H. 4, 84 fin.; Suet. Oth. 8; Inscr. Orell. 1465-1470 and 4967;

without pater,

Verg. G. 4, 519; id. A. 4, 702; 5, 731; 6, 127 al.:

pallida Ditis aqua,

Tib. 3, 1, 28:

Ditis ignava aqua,

id. 3, 3, 38; Ov. M. 4, 438; 511; id. F. 4, 449 al.:

domina Ditis = Proserpina,

Verg. A. 6, 397.

dĭs, an inseparable particle [Sanscr. dva, two: dvis, twice; Gr. dis (dWis); cf.: bis, bini, dubius, duo; also Sanscr. vi- (for dvi-) = dis-], occurs before vowels only in dishiasco; it stands unchanged before c, p, q, t, s, and di; loses its s before b, d, g, l, m, n, r, and v; and becomes dif -before f. So, discedo, dispar, disquiro, distraho, dissolvo; dibalo, dido, digero, dilabor, dimetior, dinumero, dirigo, divello, etc. Before j (i) we have sometimes dī-, as in dijudico, dijungo, and sometimes dis-, as in disjeci, disjungo. Iacio makes disicio or dissicio. In late Lat. disglutino and disgrego occur; while disrumpo occurs in Cic. Lael. 22, 85; cf.

dirrumpo,

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 37: dirripio in Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 19, 37, in some MSS.; and dimminuo in MSS. of Plautus, v. Neue Formenl. 2, 782 sq.—

Meaning.

Dis, in most cases, answers to our asunder, in pieces, apart, in two, in different directions, implying separation or division, as in: diffindo, diffugio, digero, discedo, discepto, discerno, discerpo, discindo, dido, diffindo, dimitto, dirumpo, divido, and a multitude of others.—

Less freq. = Engl. un-, reversing or negativing the meaning of the primitive, as in discingo, disconduco, disconvenio, diffido, diffiteor, disjungo, displiceo, dissimulo, dissocio, dissuadeo, and a few others; so, dinumero, to count as separate objects: disputo, to discuss different views or things. —

In a few words dis- acquires an intensive force, exceedingly, as, differtus, dilaudo, discupio, disperio ( utterly), dispudet, dissuavior, distaedet. This is but a development of its original meaning: thus, differtus is properly stuffed out; dilaudo, to scatter praise of, etc.—

Between, among, through: dinosco, dirigo (or derigo), dijudico, diligo, dilucesco, dispicio, dissereno.