diverbero

dī-verbĕro, no perf., ātum, 1, v. a., to strike asunder, to cut, cleave, divide.

I.

Lit. ( poet. and post-Aug. prose):

res ictu,

Lucr. 1, 223:

aërias undas,

id. 2, 151:

volucres auras sagittā,

Verg. A. 5, 503:

umbras ferro,

id. ib. 6, 294;

9, 411: fluctus,

Curt. 4, 4:

quod jubis pronos cervix diverberet armos,

flaps, strikes, Nemes. Cyn. 265.—

II.

Transf., to cudgel soundly:

servum,

Lact. 2, 7 fin.