quadrifidus

quā̆drĭfĭdus, a, um, adj. [quattuorfindo], four-cleft, split into four parts, quadrifid ( poet. ).

I.

Lit.:

quadrifidas sudes,

Verg. G. 2, 25:

quadrifidam quercum Scindebat,

was cleaving in four, id. A. 7, 509:

quadrifidā trabe fingere tela Jovis,

Val. Fl. 1, 663:

ridicae,

Col. 4, 33, 4.—

II.

Transf., in gen., divided into four parts: labor, Claud. Cons. Prob. et Olybr. 268.