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diverbero

diverbero, to strike asunder, cut, cleave, divide

Frieze-Dennison Vergil

dīverberō, no perf., ātus, 1, a.: to strike asunder, cleave, cut, 5.503.
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.

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