divexo

dī-vexo, āre, v. a., to pull or rend asunder, to destroy (very rare).

I.

Lit.: neu reliquias sic meas sieris... foede divexarier, Pac. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 44, 106 (Trag. v. 201 Rib.):

omnia divexare et diripere,

Cic. Phil. 11, 2, 4:

agros civium optimorum,

id. ib. 13, 9 fin.:

meam rem,

Plaut. Pers. 5, 2, 4.—

II.

Trop., to vex, trouble:

matrem,

Suet. Ner. 34 (perhaps also clientelas, id. Calig. 3, v. Baumg.-Crus. in h. l.).