dī-dūco — Lewis & Short
dī-dūco, xi, ctum, 3,
I 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.