I.“but divulsi,” Sen. Hippol. 1173), vulsum, 3, v. a.
I. To rend asunder, to tear in pieces, to separate violently, to tear (class.; cf.: findo, scindo, dirimo, segrego, secerno).
A. Lit.: “res a natura copulatas audebit divellere,” Cic. Off. 3, 18 fin.: “corpus, et undis spargere,” Verg. A. 4, 600; so, “corpus,” Ov. M. 4, 112: “agnam,” Hor. S. 1, 8, 27; cf.: “suos artus lacero morsu,” Ov. M. 8, 878: “membra,” id. Tr. 3, 9, 27; id. M. 13, 865 et saep.: “magnos montes manibus,” i. e. to cleave, Lucr. 1, 202; cf.: “mediam partem quercus (with discidere),” Gell. 15, 16, 3: “nodos manibus,” to untie, Verg. A. 2, 220: “paenulam sentibus,” Suet. Ner. 48: “nubem,” Lucr. 6, 203; cf.: “moenia mundi,” id. 6, 122.—
B. Trop., to tear violently apart, remove, destroy, sunder: “commoda civium,” Cic. Off. 2, 23, 82: “rem dissolutam divulsamque conglutinare,” id. de Or. 1, 41, 188; cf. id. ib. 3, 6, 24: “affinitas divelli nullo modo poterat,” to be dissolved, destroyed, id. Quint. 6, 25; cf. “amicitiam,” Sen. Ep. 6; and: “amorem querimoniis,” Hor. C. 1, 13, 19: “somnos (cura),” id. Ep. 1, 10, 18: “distineor et divellor dolore,” am distracted, Cic. Planc. 33, 79.—
II. (Like distraho, II.) To tear away, separate, remove from something (class.).
A. Lit.: “membra divellere ac distrahere,” Cic. Sull. 20 fin.: “aliquem ab aliquo,” id. Cat. 2, 10, 22; id. Mil. 36: “liberos a parentum complexu,” Sall. C. 51, 9; “for which: aliquem dulci amplexu,” Verg. A. 8, 568; cf.: “Damalin adultero,” Hor. C. 1, 36, 19: “nec me umquam Gyas (sc. a te),” id. ib. 2, 17, 15.—
B. Trop.: “sapientiam, temperantiam, a voluptate divellere ac distrahere,” Cic. Fin. 1, 16, 50. —So of persons, to draw away from one in feeling, to estrange: “qui a me mei servatorem capitis divellat ac distrahat,” Cic. Planc. 42, 102.
