to+estrange

ā-verto (arch. - vorto; in MSS. also abverto; cf. ab init.), ti, sum, 3, v. a., to turn something away from a place, to avert, turn off, remove, etc. (opp. adverto).

Lit.

In gen.

Constr. aliquem ab or with the simple abl.; the limit designated by in with acc. (more rarely by ad):

ab saxo avortit fluctus ad litus scapham,

Plaut. Rud. 1, 2, 76: Jup. Te volo, uxor, conloqui. Quor ted avortisti? Alc. Est ita ingenium meum:

Inimicos semper osa sum optuerier,

id. Am. 3, 2, 18:

(M. Lepidus) Antonio diadema Caesari imponente se avertit,

Cic. Phil. 5, 14; id. Balb. 5, 11:

aliquid ab oculis,

id. N. D. 2, 56, 141:

nos flumina arcemus, dirigimus, avertimus,

turn off, id. ib. 2, 60, 152; so Liv. 41, 11, 3: quod iter ab Arari Helvetii averterant, had turned aside their march from Caes. B. G. 1, 16 et saep.:

locis seminis ic tum,

Lucr. 4, 1273:

Italiā Teucrorum regem,

Verg. A. 1, 42:

a ceteris omnium in se oculos,

Liv. 2, 5, 6:

in comitiorum disceptationem ab lege certamen,

id. 3, 24, 9:

ab hominibus ad deos preces,

id. 6, 20, 10: se alicui, instead of ab aliquo. Col. 6, 37, 10.—And poet. with acc.:

quo regnum Italiae Libycas averteret oras,

Verg. A. 4, 106. —With dat.:

Quod mihi non patrii poterant avertere amici,

Prop. 4, 24, 9; so Val. Fl. 3, 491.—Also without an antecedent ab (since this is included in the verb) with in with acc.:

in fugam classem, Liv 22, 19, 11: dissipatos in fugam,

id. 34, 15, 2; hence absol.:

mille acies avertit avertetque (sc. in fugam),

put to flight, id. 9, 19, 17.—

Pass. in mid. signif. with the acc., in the Greek manner, to turn away from:

equus fontes avertitur,

Verg. G. 3, 499 (cf. the Gr. apostrephesthai to hudôr, and aversari):

oppositas impasta avertitur herbas,

Stat. Th. 6, 192; Petr. 124, 248.—

As v. n. avertere = se avertere, to turn one's self away, to retire:

ob eam causam huc abs te avorti,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 83:

ecce avortit,

id. ib. 2, 2, 50:

dixit et avertens roseā cervice refulsit,

Verg. A. 1, 402:

tum prora avertit,

id. ib. 1, 104:

avertit et ire in Capitolium coepit,

Gell. 4, 18, 4 al. —

To take away, drive away, carry off, steal, embezzle, to appropriate to one ' s self:

pecuniam publicam,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 4:

compertum publicam pecuniam avertisse,

Tac. H. 1, 53:

aliquid domum tuam,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 19:

praedam omnem domum avertebant,

Caes. B. C. 3, 59:

intellexistis innumerabilem frumenti numerum per triennium aversum a re publicā esse ereptumque aratoribus,

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

auratam Colchis pellem,

to carry off, Cat. 64, 5:

quattuor a stabulis tauros,

Verg. A. 8, 208:

avertere praedas,

id. ib. 10, 78:

carā pisces avertere mensā,

Hor. S. 2, 4, 37.—

Trop.

To turn, divert a person from a course of action, purpose, etc.:

accusandi terrores et minae populi opinionem a spe adipiscendi avertunt,

Cic. Mur. 21:

avertant animos a spe recuperandae arcis,

Liv. 9, 24, 11:

qui mentem optimi viri a defensione meae salutis averterant,

Cic. Sest. 31:

ut nec vobis averteretur a certamine animus,

Liv. 1, 28, 5:

animum a pietate,

id. 7, 5, 7:

aliquem ab incepto avertit,

id. 23, 18, 9:

a philosophiā,

Suet. Ner. 52.—

Aliquem, to turn away from one in feeling, i. e. to make averse or disinclined to, to alienate, estrange:

legiones abducis a Bruto. Quas? nempe eas, quas ille a C. Antonii scelere avertit et ad rem publicam suā auctoritate traduxit,

Cic. Phil. 10, 3:

ipse Pompeius totum se ab ejus (sc. Caesaris) amicitiā averterat,

had quite alienated himself from, Caes. B. C. 1, 4:

civitates ab alicujus amicitiā,

id. ib. 3, 79:

popularium animos,

Sall. J. 111, 2:

futurum, uti totius Galliae animi a se averterentur,

Caes. B. G. 1, 20:

nobis mentem deorum,

Cat. 64, 406.—Hence, āver-sus, a, um, P. a.

Turned off or away: aversum hostem videre nemo potuit, turned away, i. e. turned in flight, Caes. B. G. 1, 26; hence, backwards, behind, back ( = a tergo; opp. adversus), distant:

et adversus et aversus impudicus es,

before and behind, Cic. de Or. 2, 63, 256:

canities homini semper a priori parte capitis, tum deinde ab aversā,

Plin. 11, 37, 47, § 131; 11, 52, 113, § 272: ne aversos nostros aggrederentur, fall upon our troops in the rear, Galba ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 30, 3:

ne aversi ab hoste circumvenirentur,

from behind, in the rear, Caes. B. G. 2, 26:

aversos proterere,

id. B. C. 2, 41: aversi vulnerantur, Auct. B. Alex. 30;

32: aversum ferro transfixit,

Nep. Dat. 11, 5:

aversos boves caudis in speluncam traxit,

backwards, Liv. 1, 7, 5 (cf. Prop. 5, 9, 12:

Aversos caudā traxit in antra boves): aversa hosti porta,

Tac. A. 1, 66:

scribit in aversā Picens epigrammata chartā,

upon the back of the paper, Mart. 8, 62 (cf. Juv. 1, 6: liber scriptus in tergo), and so al.— Trop.:

milites aversi a proelio,

withdrawn from the battle, Caes. B. C. 2, 12. — Subst.: āversum, i, n., the hinder or back part, the back (as subst. only in the plur.):

per aversa castrorum receptus est,

Vell. 2, 63 Ruhnk.:

per aversa urbis fugam dederat,

Liv. 5, 29, 4: ad aversa insulae, id. [p. 215] 37, 27, 2:

aversa montis,

Plin. 4, 11, 18, § 41: aversa Indiae, the back or remoter parts of India, id. 37, 8, 33, § 110.—So in adverb. phrase: in aversum, backwards:

Cetera animalia in aversum posterioribus pedibus quam prioribus,

Plin. 11, 45, 101, § 248 (Jan, in diversum):

collum circum agit (lynx) in aversum,

id. 11, 47, 107, § 256 (Jan, in aversum se; Sillig, in adversum). —

Disinclined, alienated, unfavorable, opposed, hostile, averse; constr. with ab, with dat., or absol.

With ab (so most frequently in Cicero):

aversus a Musis,

Cic. Arch. 9, 20:

aversus a vero,

id. Cat. 3, 9, 21:

turbidi animorum motus, aversi a ratione, et inimicissimi mentis vitaeque tranquillae,

id. Tusc. 4, 15, 34:

Quintus aversissimo a me animo fuit,

id. Att. 11, 5 fin.; Col. 11, 1, 14:

aversissimus ab istis prodigiis sum,

Sen. Ep. 50.—

With dat.:

aversus mercaturis,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 107:

vilicus aversus contubernio,

Col. 12, 1, 2:

defensioni aversior,

Quint. 7, 1, 11 (but acc. to the MSS., adversior seems here to deserve the preference; so Halm; cf. Spald. and Zumpt ad h. l.).—

Absol.:

aversa deae mens,

Verg. A. 2, 170:

aversa voluntas,

id. ib. 12, 647:

aversos soliti componere amicos,

Hor. S. 1, 5, 29:

aversus animus,

Tac. H. 4, 80 et saep.:

vultus aversior,

Sen. Ira, 2, 24:

aversi animis,

Tac. A. 14, 26.— Adv. not used.

ā-verto (arch. - vorto; in MSS. also abverto; cf. ab init.), ti, sum, 3, v. a., to turn something away from a place, to avert, turn off, remove, etc. (opp. adverto).

Lit.

In gen.

Constr. aliquem ab or with the simple abl.; the limit designated by in with acc. (more rarely by ad):

ab saxo avortit fluctus ad litus scapham,

Plaut. Rud. 1, 2, 76: Jup. Te volo, uxor, conloqui. Quor ted avortisti? Alc. Est ita ingenium meum:

Inimicos semper osa sum optuerier,

id. Am. 3, 2, 18:

(M. Lepidus) Antonio diadema Caesari imponente se avertit,

Cic. Phil. 5, 14; id. Balb. 5, 11:

aliquid ab oculis,

id. N. D. 2, 56, 141:

nos flumina arcemus, dirigimus, avertimus,

turn off, id. ib. 2, 60, 152; so Liv. 41, 11, 3: quod iter ab Arari Helvetii averterant, had turned aside their march from Caes. B. G. 1, 16 et saep.:

locis seminis ic tum,

Lucr. 4, 1273:

Italiā Teucrorum regem,

Verg. A. 1, 42:

a ceteris omnium in se oculos,

Liv. 2, 5, 6:

in comitiorum disceptationem ab lege certamen,

id. 3, 24, 9:

ab hominibus ad deos preces,

id. 6, 20, 10: se alicui, instead of ab aliquo. Col. 6, 37, 10.—And poet. with acc.:

quo regnum Italiae Libycas averteret oras,

Verg. A. 4, 106. —With dat.:

Quod mihi non patrii poterant avertere amici,

Prop. 4, 24, 9; so Val. Fl. 3, 491.—Also without an antecedent ab (since this is included in the verb) with in with acc.:

in fugam classem, Liv 22, 19, 11: dissipatos in fugam,

id. 34, 15, 2; hence absol.:

mille acies avertit avertetque (sc. in fugam),

put to flight, id. 9, 19, 17.—

Pass. in mid. signif. with the acc., in the Greek manner, to turn away from:

equus fontes avertitur,

Verg. G. 3, 499 (cf. the Gr. apostrephesthai to hudôr, and aversari):

oppositas impasta avertitur herbas,

Stat. Th. 6, 192; Petr. 124, 248.—

As v. n. avertere = se avertere, to turn one's self away, to retire:

ob eam causam huc abs te avorti,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 83:

ecce avortit,

id. ib. 2, 2, 50:

dixit et avertens roseā cervice refulsit,

Verg. A. 1, 402:

tum prora avertit,

id. ib. 1, 104:

avertit et ire in Capitolium coepit,

Gell. 4, 18, 4 al. —

To take away, drive away, carry off, steal, embezzle, to appropriate to one ' s self:

pecuniam publicam,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 4:

compertum publicam pecuniam avertisse,

Tac. H. 1, 53:

aliquid domum tuam,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 19:

praedam omnem domum avertebant,

Caes. B. C. 3, 59:

intellexistis innumerabilem frumenti numerum per triennium aversum a re publicā esse ereptumque aratoribus,

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

auratam Colchis pellem,

to carry off, Cat. 64, 5:

quattuor a stabulis tauros,

Verg. A. 8, 208:

avertere praedas,

id. ib. 10, 78:

carā pisces avertere mensā,

Hor. S. 2, 4, 37.—

Trop.

To turn, divert a person from a course of action, purpose, etc.:

accusandi terrores et minae populi opinionem a spe adipiscendi avertunt,

Cic. Mur. 21:

avertant animos a spe recuperandae arcis,

Liv. 9, 24, 11:

qui mentem optimi viri a defensione meae salutis averterant,

Cic. Sest. 31:

ut nec vobis averteretur a certamine animus,

Liv. 1, 28, 5:

animum a pietate,

id. 7, 5, 7:

aliquem ab incepto avertit,

id. 23, 18, 9:

a philosophiā,

Suet. Ner. 52.—

Aliquem, to turn away from one in feeling, i. e. to make averse or disinclined to, to alienate, estrange:

legiones abducis a Bruto. Quas? nempe eas, quas ille a C. Antonii scelere avertit et ad rem publicam suā auctoritate traduxit,

Cic. Phil. 10, 3:

ipse Pompeius totum se ab ejus (sc. Caesaris) amicitiā averterat,

had quite alienated himself from, Caes. B. C. 1, 4:

civitates ab alicujus amicitiā,

id. ib. 3, 79:

popularium animos,

Sall. J. 111, 2:

futurum, uti totius Galliae animi a se averterentur,

Caes. B. G. 1, 20:

nobis mentem deorum,

Cat. 64, 406.—Hence, āver-sus, a, um, P. a.

Turned off or away: aversum hostem videre nemo potuit, turned away, i. e. turned in flight, Caes. B. G. 1, 26; hence, backwards, behind, back ( = a tergo; opp. adversus), distant:

et adversus et aversus impudicus es,

before and behind, Cic. de Or. 2, 63, 256:

canities homini semper a priori parte capitis, tum deinde ab aversā,

Plin. 11, 37, 47, § 131; 11, 52, 113, § 272: ne aversos nostros aggrederentur, fall upon our troops in the rear, Galba ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 30, 3:

ne aversi ab hoste circumvenirentur,

from behind, in the rear, Caes. B. G. 2, 26:

aversos proterere,

id. B. C. 2, 41: aversi vulnerantur, Auct. B. Alex. 30;

32: aversum ferro transfixit,

Nep. Dat. 11, 5:

aversos boves caudis in speluncam traxit,

backwards, Liv. 1, 7, 5 (cf. Prop. 5, 9, 12:

Aversos caudā traxit in antra boves): aversa hosti porta,

Tac. A. 1, 66:

scribit in aversā Picens epigrammata chartā,

upon the back of the paper, Mart. 8, 62 (cf. Juv. 1, 6: liber scriptus in tergo), and so al.— Trop.:

milites aversi a proelio,

withdrawn from the battle, Caes. B. C. 2, 12. — Subst.: āversum, i, n., the hinder or back part, the back (as subst. only in the plur.):

per aversa castrorum receptus est,

Vell. 2, 63 Ruhnk.:

per aversa urbis fugam dederat,

Liv. 5, 29, 4: ad aversa insulae, id. [p. 215] 37, 27, 2:

aversa montis,

Plin. 4, 11, 18, § 41: aversa Indiae, the back or remoter parts of India, id. 37, 8, 33, § 110.—So in adverb. phrase: in aversum, backwards:

Cetera animalia in aversum posterioribus pedibus quam prioribus,

Plin. 11, 45, 101, § 248 (Jan, in diversum):

collum circum agit (lynx) in aversum,

id. 11, 47, 107, § 256 (Jan, in aversum se; Sillig, in adversum). —

Disinclined, alienated, unfavorable, opposed, hostile, averse; constr. with ab, with dat., or absol.

With ab (so most frequently in Cicero):

aversus a Musis,

Cic. Arch. 9, 20:

aversus a vero,

id. Cat. 3, 9, 21:

turbidi animorum motus, aversi a ratione, et inimicissimi mentis vitaeque tranquillae,

id. Tusc. 4, 15, 34:

Quintus aversissimo a me animo fuit,

id. Att. 11, 5 fin.; Col. 11, 1, 14:

aversissimus ab istis prodigiis sum,

Sen. Ep. 50.—

With dat.:

aversus mercaturis,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 107:

vilicus aversus contubernio,

Col. 12, 1, 2:

defensioni aversior,

Quint. 7, 1, 11 (but acc. to the MSS., adversior seems here to deserve the preference; so Halm; cf. Spald. and Zumpt ad h. l.).—

Absol.:

aversa deae mens,

Verg. A. 2, 170:

aversa voluntas,

id. ib. 12, 647:

aversos soliti componere amicos,

Hor. S. 1, 5, 29:

aversus animus,

Tac. H. 4, 80 et saep.:

vultus aversior,

Sen. Ira, 2, 24:

aversi animis,

Tac. A. 14, 26.— Adv. not used.

ā-verto (arch. - vorto; in MSS. also abverto; cf. ab init.), ti, sum, 3, v. a., to turn something away from a place, to avert, turn off, remove, etc. (opp. adverto).

Lit.

In gen.

Constr. aliquem ab or with the simple abl.; the limit designated by in with acc. (more rarely by ad):

ab saxo avortit fluctus ad litus scapham,

Plaut. Rud. 1, 2, 76: Jup. Te volo, uxor, conloqui. Quor ted avortisti? Alc. Est ita ingenium meum:

Inimicos semper osa sum optuerier,

id. Am. 3, 2, 18:

(M. Lepidus) Antonio diadema Caesari imponente se avertit,

Cic. Phil. 5, 14; id. Balb. 5, 11:

aliquid ab oculis,

id. N. D. 2, 56, 141:

nos flumina arcemus, dirigimus, avertimus,

turn off, id. ib. 2, 60, 152; so Liv. 41, 11, 3: quod iter ab Arari Helvetii averterant, had turned aside their march from Caes. B. G. 1, 16 et saep.:

locis seminis ic tum,

Lucr. 4, 1273:

Italiā Teucrorum regem,

Verg. A. 1, 42:

a ceteris omnium in se oculos,

Liv. 2, 5, 6:

in comitiorum disceptationem ab lege certamen,

id. 3, 24, 9:

ab hominibus ad deos preces,

id. 6, 20, 10: se alicui, instead of ab aliquo. Col. 6, 37, 10.—And poet. with acc.:

quo regnum Italiae Libycas averteret oras,

Verg. A. 4, 106. —With dat.:

Quod mihi non patrii poterant avertere amici,

Prop. 4, 24, 9; so Val. Fl. 3, 491.—Also without an antecedent ab (since this is included in the verb) with in with acc.:

in fugam classem, Liv 22, 19, 11: dissipatos in fugam,

id. 34, 15, 2; hence absol.:

mille acies avertit avertetque (sc. in fugam),

put to flight, id. 9, 19, 17.—

Pass. in mid. signif. with the acc., in the Greek manner, to turn away from:

equus fontes avertitur,

Verg. G. 3, 499 (cf. the Gr. apostrephesthai to hudôr, and aversari):

oppositas impasta avertitur herbas,

Stat. Th. 6, 192; Petr. 124, 248.—

As v. n. avertere = se avertere, to turn one's self away, to retire:

ob eam causam huc abs te avorti,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 83:

ecce avortit,

id. ib. 2, 2, 50:

dixit et avertens roseā cervice refulsit,

Verg. A. 1, 402:

tum prora avertit,

id. ib. 1, 104:

avertit et ire in Capitolium coepit,

Gell. 4, 18, 4 al. —

To take away, drive away, carry off, steal, embezzle, to appropriate to one ' s self:

pecuniam publicam,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 4:

compertum publicam pecuniam avertisse,

Tac. H. 1, 53:

aliquid domum tuam,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 19:

praedam omnem domum avertebant,

Caes. B. C. 3, 59:

intellexistis innumerabilem frumenti numerum per triennium aversum a re publicā esse ereptumque aratoribus,

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

auratam Colchis pellem,

to carry off, Cat. 64, 5:

quattuor a stabulis tauros,

Verg. A. 8, 208:

avertere praedas,

id. ib. 10, 78:

carā pisces avertere mensā,

Hor. S. 2, 4, 37.—

Trop.

To turn, divert a person from a course of action, purpose, etc.:

accusandi terrores et minae populi opinionem a spe adipiscendi avertunt,

Cic. Mur. 21:

avertant animos a spe recuperandae arcis,

Liv. 9, 24, 11:

qui mentem optimi viri a defensione meae salutis averterant,

Cic. Sest. 31:

ut nec vobis averteretur a certamine animus,

Liv. 1, 28, 5:

animum a pietate,

id. 7, 5, 7:

aliquem ab incepto avertit,

id. 23, 18, 9:

a philosophiā,

Suet. Ner. 52.—

Aliquem, to turn away from one in feeling, i. e. to make averse or disinclined to, to alienate, estrange:

legiones abducis a Bruto. Quas? nempe eas, quas ille a C. Antonii scelere avertit et ad rem publicam suā auctoritate traduxit,

Cic. Phil. 10, 3:

ipse Pompeius totum se ab ejus (sc. Caesaris) amicitiā averterat,

had quite alienated himself from, Caes. B. C. 1, 4:

civitates ab alicujus amicitiā,

id. ib. 3, 79:

popularium animos,

Sall. J. 111, 2:

futurum, uti totius Galliae animi a se averterentur,

Caes. B. G. 1, 20:

nobis mentem deorum,

Cat. 64, 406.—Hence, āver-sus, a, um, P. a.

Turned off or away: aversum hostem videre nemo potuit, turned away, i. e. turned in flight, Caes. B. G. 1, 26; hence, backwards, behind, back ( = a tergo; opp. adversus), distant:

et adversus et aversus impudicus es,

before and behind, Cic. de Or. 2, 63, 256:

canities homini semper a priori parte capitis, tum deinde ab aversā,

Plin. 11, 37, 47, § 131; 11, 52, 113, § 272: ne aversos nostros aggrederentur, fall upon our troops in the rear, Galba ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 30, 3:

ne aversi ab hoste circumvenirentur,

from behind, in the rear, Caes. B. G. 2, 26:

aversos proterere,

id. B. C. 2, 41: aversi vulnerantur, Auct. B. Alex. 30;

32: aversum ferro transfixit,

Nep. Dat. 11, 5:

aversos boves caudis in speluncam traxit,

backwards, Liv. 1, 7, 5 (cf. Prop. 5, 9, 12:

Aversos caudā traxit in antra boves): aversa hosti porta,

Tac. A. 1, 66:

scribit in aversā Picens epigrammata chartā,

upon the back of the paper, Mart. 8, 62 (cf. Juv. 1, 6: liber scriptus in tergo), and so al.— Trop.:

milites aversi a proelio,

withdrawn from the battle, Caes. B. C. 2, 12. — Subst.: āversum, i, n., the hinder or back part, the back (as subst. only in the plur.):

per aversa castrorum receptus est,

Vell. 2, 63 Ruhnk.:

per aversa urbis fugam dederat,

Liv. 5, 29, 4: ad aversa insulae, id. [p. 215] 37, 27, 2:

aversa montis,

Plin. 4, 11, 18, § 41: aversa Indiae, the back or remoter parts of India, id. 37, 8, 33, § 110.—So in adverb. phrase: in aversum, backwards:

Cetera animalia in aversum posterioribus pedibus quam prioribus,

Plin. 11, 45, 101, § 248 (Jan, in diversum):

collum circum agit (lynx) in aversum,

id. 11, 47, 107, § 256 (Jan, in aversum se; Sillig, in adversum). —

Disinclined, alienated, unfavorable, opposed, hostile, averse; constr. with ab, with dat., or absol.

With ab (so most frequently in Cicero):

aversus a Musis,

Cic. Arch. 9, 20:

aversus a vero,

id. Cat. 3, 9, 21:

turbidi animorum motus, aversi a ratione, et inimicissimi mentis vitaeque tranquillae,

id. Tusc. 4, 15, 34:

Quintus aversissimo a me animo fuit,

id. Att. 11, 5 fin.; Col. 11, 1, 14:

aversissimus ab istis prodigiis sum,

Sen. Ep. 50.—

With dat.:

aversus mercaturis,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 107:

vilicus aversus contubernio,

Col. 12, 1, 2:

defensioni aversior,

Quint. 7, 1, 11 (but acc. to the MSS., adversior seems here to deserve the preference; so Halm; cf. Spald. and Zumpt ad h. l.).—

Absol.:

aversa deae mens,

Verg. A. 2, 170:

aversa voluntas,

id. ib. 12, 647:

aversos soliti componere amicos,

Hor. S. 1, 5, 29:

aversus animus,

Tac. H. 4, 80 et saep.:

vultus aversior,

Sen. Ira, 2, 24:

aversi animis,

Tac. A. 14, 26.— Adv. not used.

dis-sŏcĭo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to separate from fellowship, to disjoin, disunite.

Lit. (almost exclusively poet.):

artas partis,

Lucr. 5, 355; cf.:

dissociata locis concordi pace ligavit,

Ov. M. 1, 25: montes opaca valle, * Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 5:

Bruttia ora profundo,

Stat. S. 1, 3, 32.—

Trop., to separate in sentiment, to disunite, set at variance, estrange (freq. in Cic.):

morum dissimilitudo dissociat amicitias,

Cic. Lael. 20, 74:

homines antea dissociatos jucundissimo inter se sermonis vinculo colligavit,

id. Rep. 3, 2; so,

barbarorum copias,

Tac. A. 12, 55 fin.:

populum armis civilibus,

Front. Strat. 1, 10, 4:

animos civium,

Nep. Att. 2, 2:

disertos a doctis,

Cic. de Or. 3, 19, 72 (cf. shortly before: doctrinarum divortia facta); cf.:

legionem a legione,

Tac. A. 1, 28 fin.:

excidium (Tencteris) minitans ni causam suam dissociarent,

gave up, abandoned, id. ib. 13, 56 (shortly before: illi Tencteros, ulteriores etiam nationes socias bello vocabant); id. H. 4, 37.

dis-trăho, xi, ctum, 3, v. a.

To pull asunder, tear in pieces, to separate forcibly, divide (freq. and class.).

Lit.

In gen.:

corpus quod dirimi distrahive non possit,

Cic. N. D. 3, 12; cf. id. Tusc. 1, 29, 71:

exanimor, feror, differor, distrahor, diripior,

Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 5; Pentheum diripuisse aiunt Bacchas;

nugas... prae quo pacto ego divorsus distrahor,

id. Merc. 2, 4, 1 sq.; cf.: Mettum Fufetium equis ad curriculum ex utraque parte deligatum distraxit, Varr. ap. Non. 287, 22;

so of the same: corpus passim,

Liv. 1, 28 fin.;

of Hippolytus: turbatis distractus equis,

Verg. A. 7, 787:

quae (materia) neque perrumpi neque distrahi potest,

Caes. B. G. 7, 23 fin.; cf.

vallum (with diripere),

Liv. 25, 36:

ut aciem ejus distrahi paterentur,

i. e. to be separated, broken up, Caes. B. C. 3, 92, 1:

Taurus mons mediam distrahens Asiam,

Plin. 5, 27, 27, § 97 et saep.—

In partic., in mercant. lang., to sell separately, in parcels, to retail = divendere (mostly post-Aug.): dividant, differant, dissipent, distrahant, Lucil. ap. Non. 287, 9:

coëmendo quaedam tantum ut pluris postea distraheret,

Suet. Vesp. 16:

agros,

Tac. A. 6, 17; cf.

fundum,

Dig. 2, 15, 8, § 15:

merces,

Just. 9, 1, 6:

bona venum,

Gell. 20, 1, 19 et saep.—

In gen., to sell:

instrumentum,

Suet. Cal. 39:

levi pretio aetatulam,

App. M. 7, p. 191 fin. —

To waste, squander:

apsenti hic tua res distrahitur tibi,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 1, 16. —

Trop., to draw in different directions; to divide, distract, perplex:

qui haec natura cohaerentia opinione distraxissent,

Cic. Off. 3, 3, 11; cf. Quint. 4, 3, 4:

distrahitur in deliberando animus,

Cic. Off. 1, 3, 9; cf., shortly before: in quo considerando saepe animi in contrarias sententias distrahuntur; cf.:

distrahor, tum hoc mihi probabilius, tum illud videtur,

id. Ac. 2, 43 fin.:

cum Tiberium anceps cura distraheret, vine militum... an, etc.,

Tac. A. 2, 40; cf. id. ib. 6, 44:

obsessos hinc fides, inde egestas inter decus ac flagitium distrahebant,

id. H. 4, 60:

oratoris industriam in plura studia distrahere nolim,

Cic. de Or. 1, 59:

sic distrahuntur in contrarias partes impotentium cupiditates,

id. Tusc. 5, 20 fin.; cf. Tac. A. 4, 40: res publica [p. 599] distracta lacerataque, Liv. 2, 57; cf.

quae sententia omnem societatem distrahit civitatis,

Cic. Off. 3, 6, 28: Caesarem et Pompeium perfidia hominum distractos in pristinam concordiam reducere, Balbus ap. Cic. Att. 8, 15 A.:

amorem,

Ter. Ph. 3, 2, 33:

concilium Boeotorum,

Liv. 42, 47:

collegia,

Suet. Caes. 42:

matrimonium,

Dig. 24, 2, 2 et saep.:

rem,

to frustrate, prevent, Caes. B. C. 1, 33, 3:

controversias, i. e. dirimere,

to end, adjust, Cic. Caecin. 2, 6; Suet. Caes. 85: voces, i. e. to leave a hiatus (opp. contrahere), Cic. Or. 45, 152:

qua ipse fama distraheretur, i. q. differretur (cf. differo, B. 2.),

would be assailed, Tac. A. 3, 10.

To tear away, draw away, part, to separate, remove.

Lit.:

membra divellere ac distrahere,

Cic. Sull. 20 fin.:

illam a me distrahit necessitas,

Ter. Hec. 3, 5, 42; id. Phorm. 1, 4, 24; Cic. Fam. 4, 13, 2.—

Trop.:

sapientiam, temperantiam, fortitudinem copulatas esse docui cum voluptate, ut ab ea nullo modo nec divelli nec distrahi possint,

Cic. Fin. 1, 16, 50.—

Of persons, to separate in sentiment, to estrange, alienate:

aliquem ab aliquo (preceded by: a conjunctione avocare, and: a familiaritate disjungere),

id. Phil. 2, 10, 23;

so with divellere,

id. Planc. 42, 102.—Hence, distractus, a, um, P. a.

Divided (very rarely):

(conjectus animaï) divisior inter se ac distractior,

Lucr. 4, 961.—

Trop., distracted, perplexed:

distractissimus tantorum onerum mole,

Vell. 2, 114, 1.— Adv. does not occur.

dī-vello, velli (Ov. M. 11, 38;

but divulsi,

Sen. Hippol. 1173), vulsum, 3, v. a.

To rend asunder, to tear in pieces, to separate violently, to tear (class.; cf.: findo, scindo, dirimo, segrego, secerno).

Lit.:

res a natura copulatas audebit divellere,

Cic. Off. 3, 18 fin.:

corpus, et undis spargere,

Verg. A. 4, 600; so,

corpus,

Ov. M. 4, 112:

agnam,

Hor. S. 1, 8, 27; cf.:

suos artus lacero morsu,

Ov. M. 8, 878:

membra,

id. Tr. 3, 9, 27; id. M. 13, 865 et saep.:

magnos montes manibus,

i. e. to cleave, Lucr. 1, 202; cf.:

mediam partem quercus (with discidere),

Gell. 15, 16, 3:

nodos manibus,

to untie, Verg. A. 2, 220:

paenulam sentibus,

Suet. Ner. 48:

nubem,

Lucr. 6, 203; cf.:

moenia mundi,

id. 6, 122.—

Trop., to tear violently apart, remove, destroy, sunder:

commoda civium,

Cic. Off. 2, 23, 82:

rem dissolutam divulsamque conglutinare,

id. de Or. 1, 41, 188; cf. id. ib. 3, 6, 24:

affinitas divelli nullo modo poterat,

to be dissolved, destroyed, id. Quint. 6, 25; cf.

amicitiam,

Sen. Ep. 6; and:

amorem querimoniis,

Hor. C. 1, 13, 19:

somnos (cura),

id. Ep. 1, 10, 18:

distineor et divellor dolore,

am distracted, Cic. Planc. 33, 79.—

(Like distraho, II.) To tear away, separate, remove from something (class.).

Lit.:

membra divellere ac distrahere,

Cic. Sull. 20 fin.:

aliquem ab aliquo,

id. Cat. 2, 10, 22; id. Mil. 36:

liberos a parentum complexu,

Sall. C. 51, 9;

for which: aliquem dulci amplexu,

Verg. A. 8, 568; cf.:

Damalin adultero,

Hor. C. 1, 36, 19:

nec me umquam Gyas (sc. a te),

id. ib. 2, 17, 15.—

Trop.:

sapientiam, temperantiam, a voluptate divellere ac distrahere,

Cic. Fin. 1, 16, 50. —So of persons, to draw away from one in feeling, to estrange:

qui a me mei servatorem capitis divellat ac distrahat,

Cic. Planc. 42, 102.