bĭ-partĭo — Lewis & Short
bĭ-partĭo (in MSS. also bĭ-pertĭo), no
I perf., ītum, 4, v. a. bis, to divide into two parts, to bisect (as verb. finit. very rare; more freq. in part. and adv.): ver bipartitur, is divided (in respect to weather), Col. 11, 2, 36; so,
hiems bipertitur,id. 11, 2, 5 Schneid. N. cr.—Mostly part. pass.:
bipartita divisio,Varr. L. L. 5, § 17 Müll.:
genus bipartitum,Cic. Top. 22, 85:
bipertiti Aethiopes,Plin. 5, 8, 8, § 43:
ut faceres imperium bipartitum,Vulg. Ecclus. 47, 23.—Hence, bĭpartītō (bĭpert-), adv., in two parts or divisions, in two ways:
bipartito classem distribuere,Cic. Fl. 14, 32; id. Phil. 10, 6, 13: signa inferre, to attack in two parties or divisions, Caes. B. G. 1, 25 Oud. N. cr.:
collocare insidias in silvis,id. ib. 5, 32:
equites bipertito in eos emissi magnam caedem edidere,Liv. 40, 32, 6:
secta bipartito cum mens discurrit utroque,in two different directions, Ov. R. Am. 443.—With esse or fieri (cf. in Gr. di/xa ei)=nai, gi/gnesqai):
ibi in proximis villis ita bipartito fuerunt ut Tiberis inter eos et pons interesset,Cic. Cat. 3, 2, 5 B. and K.:
id fit bipartito,id. Inv. 2, 29, 86.