I.“divertium,” Inscr. Orell. 4859), ii, n. diverto, a separation.
I. In gen.: “ubi illud quod volo habebo ab illo, facile invenio, quomodo divortium et discordiam inter nos parem,” Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 66 sq. (with a play on II. 1 infra): “neutrubi habebo stabile stabulum, siquid divorti fuat,” id. Aul. 2, 2, 56.—
II. Esp.
1. A divorce, dissolution of marriage (by consent; opp. repudium, compulsory divorce by either party; cf. Dig. 24, 2, 2, § 1); “orig. used only of the wife: uxori sit reddunda dos divortio,” Plaut. Stich. 2, 1, 48; Cic. de Or. 3, 40; id. Clu. 5, 14; Plaut. Mil. 4, 4, 31; Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 7; “but afterwards in gen.,” Cic. Att. 12, 52, 2: “et Lentulum cum Metella certe fecisse divortium,” id. ib. 13, 7, 1; id. Phil. 2, 28, 69; id. de Or. 1, 40, 183; id. Top. 4, 19; id. Clu. 67; Quint. 7, 4, 11; Suet. Caes. 6 et saep.—
2. Concr., a point of separation, place where a road divides, a fork in a road, Verg. A. 9, 379; cf. “itinerum,” Liv. 44, 2, 7: “artissimo inter Europam Asiamque divortio Byzantium posuere Graeci,” Tac. A. 12, 63.—So, aquarum, i. e. a summit whence the streams run different ways, a water-shed, Cic. Att. 5, 20, 3; id. Fam. 2, 10, 2; Liv. 38, 45, 3.—
III. Trop.
1. Ex communi sapientium jugo sunt doctrinarum facta divortia, etc., divisions, varieties, Cic. de Or. 3, 19, 69.—
2. Veris et hiemis, the time at which winter ends and spring begins, Col. 4, 27, 1.—
3. Alta divortia riparum, lofty opposite banks, Amm. 15, 4, 3. —
