diduco

dī-dūco, xi, ctum, 3, v. a., to draw apart; to part, split, separate, sever, sunder, divide (class.).

I.

Lit.

A.

In gen.:

ventus eas (sc. nubes) leviter diducit,

Lucr. 6, 215:

cum compresserat digitos pugnumque fecerat... cum autem diduxerat et manum dilataverat, etc.,

Cic. Or. 32, 113;

of the graceful movements of the arms in dancing: molli diducit candida gestu brachia,

Prop. 3, 15, 5 (Müll. al. deducit):

candida seu molli diducit brachia motu,

Stat. S. 3, 5, 66; cf.

oculum,

Cels. 7, 7, 4:

supercilium volnere diductum,

Plin. 11, 37, 57, § 157:

pedem et crus in diversa,

Cels. 8, 22:

os,

Plin. 32, 4, 14, § 36:

nares, Quint 11, 3, 80: labra,

ib. 81:

fauces immani hiatu,

to stretch, Sil. 3, 194:

rictum risu,

Hor. S. 1, 10, 7 et saep.:

nodos manu,

Ov. M. 2, 560; cf.:

complexus vestros,

Prop. 1, 13, 19:

humum,

Ov. M. 8, 588; cf.:

arva et urbes,

Verg. A. 3, 419:

terram,

id. G. 2, 354:

scopulos (Hannibal),

Juv. 10, 153; cf.

of natural cleavings of the earth,

Tac. A. 2, 47; 12, 69: cibum, i. e. to digest = digerere, Cels. 3, 4 fin.; v. the foll.:

mixti neque inter se diducti colores,

Cels. 2, 8 et saep.—With in:

crudam materiam in corpus omne diduci, Cels. praef.: maxima flumina in rivos diducuntur,

Quint. 5, 13, 13; cf.:

domum in multos diductam recessus,

id. 11, 2, 18. —

B.

In partic. milit. t. t., to separate the forces, in a good or (more freq.) in a bad sense; to divide, distribute; to disperse, scatter:

diductis nostris paullatim navibus,

Caes. B. C. 2, 6, 2:

instruunt aciem diductam in cornua,

Liv. 5, 38, 1 Drak.; cf.:

diducta propere in cornua levis armatura est,

id. 21, 55, 5:

diductis in latera viribus,

Front. Strat. 2, 3, 8 Oud.:

ordines,

id. ib. 2, 3, 12;

2, 6, 4: copias,

Caes. B. C. 3, 111, 2:

cornua,

Liv. 31, 21, 14:

robur,

Luc. 3, 584 Cort.; and poet.:

choros,

Verg. A. 5, 581:

ubi Crassus animadvertit, suas copias propter exiguitatem non facile diduci,

Caes. B. G. 3, 23, 7; 6, 34, 5; id. B. C. 3. 40, 2; Sall. J. 25, 9; Liv. 26, 41; Tac. A. 2, 11; 4, 2; Front. Strat. 4, 7, 31 et saep.—

II.

Trop. (mostly post-Aug.):

cum diducaris ab eo, quicum libentissime vixeris,

Cic. Inv. 1, 55 fin.; cf.:

amicitias cohaerentes, Sen. de Ira, 2, 29: nuptias,

id. Contr. 2, 13; cf.

matrimonium,

Suet. Oth. 3; and:

si repudio diducta fuerit,

Sen. Contr. 2, 10:

diducta civitas ut civili bello,

divided into parties, Tac. A. 4, 17; cf.

below: in sterili jejunaque materia, eandem speciem laudis diducere ac spargere,

Plin. Pan. 66, 1; cf.

argumenta,

Quint. 4, 2, 82; 5, 13, 12:

nomina,

id. 6, 3, 17 Spald.:

litem domini et conductoris,

i. e. to settle, adjust, Col. 3, 13, 12 et saep.—With in:

assem in partes centum,

Hor. A. P. 326:

in tres partes medicina diducta est, Cels. praef.: haec omnia rursus in species,

Quint. 2, 14, 5; cf. id. 5, 10, 61; 94 al.:

divisionem in digitos,

to tell off on one's fingers, id. 4, 5, 24 (coupled with partiri); cf.

argumenta,

id. 11, 1, 53:

animum in tam multiplex officium,

id. 20, 7, 9:

ultio senatum in studia diduxerat,

Tac. H. 4, 6; 2, 68; cf.:

seditio in diversa consilia diduxerat vulgum,

Curt. 9, 1; of classification, to divide: in tres partes medicinam, Cels. praef.