I.to turn or go different ways, to part, separate, turn aside (in the verb. finit. rare; not in the class. per.).
I. Lit.
A. To turn out of the way; hence, of travellers, to stop, lodge, sojourn: “qui divertebat in proximo,” Amm. 14, 7, 15: “in cenaculum,” Vulg. 4 Reg. 4, 11: “ad hominem peccatorem,” to visit, id. Luc. 19, 7 al.—
B. Of a married woman, to leave her husband: “(uxor) sive diverterit, sive nupta est adhuc,” Dig. 9, 2, 27, § 30; cf. “so of divorce: si uxor a legato diverterit,” ib. 5, 1, 42: “nullis matrimoniis divertentibus,” Gell. 4, 3. V. also divortium.—
II. Trop., to deviate from each other, to differ: “divortunt mores virgini longe ac lupae,” Plaut. Ep. 3, 3, 22.—Hence, dīversus (-vorsus ), a, um, P. a., turned different ways.
I. Set over against each other, opposite, contrary (freq. and class.; cf.: adversus, contrarius).
A. Lit.: “in diversum iter equi concitati,” Liv. 1, 28: “fenestrae,” opposite each other, Prop. 1, 3, 31; cf. “ripa,” Sil. 1, 264 Drak.: “iter a proposito diversum,” Caes. B. C. 1, 69, 1; cf.: “diverso ab ea regione itinere,” id. ib. 3, 41, 4: “diversis ab flumine regionibus,” id. B. G. 6, 25, 3: “diversam aciem constituit,” id. B. C. 1, 40, 5: “duo cinguli maxime inter se diversi, i. e. the two polar circles,” Cic. Rep. 6, 20 (13): “diversum ad mare dejectus,” Tac. A. 2, 60; cf.: “procurrentibus in diversa terris,” id. Agr. 11: “in diversum flectere,” Plin. 11, 45, 101, § 248: “binas per diversum coassationes substernere,” cross-wise, Plin. 36, 25, 62, § 186.—
B. Trop.
1. In gen., different, diverse, opposite, contrary, conflicting (cf.: “varius, differens, discrepans, multiplex): monstrum ex contrariis diversisque inter se pugnantibus naturae studiis cupiditatibusque conflatum,” Cic. Cael. 5 fin.; cf.: “quis non diversa praesentibus contrariaque expectatis aut speret aut timeat?” Vell. 2, 75, 2: “pessuma ac divorsa inter se mala, luxuria atque avaritia,” Sall. C. 5, 8; cf. Liv. 34, 4.—In the sup.: “ne illi falsi sunt, qui diversissimas res pariter exspectant, ignaviae voluptatem et praemia virtutis,” Sall. J. 85, 20: “diversa sibi ambo consilia capiunt,” Caes. B. C. 3, 30, 1: “est huic diversum vitio vitium prope majus,” Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 5; cf. Vell. 2, 80, 2: “initio reges diversi pars ingenium, alii corpus exercebant,” pursuing opposite courses, Sall. C. 2, 1: “diversi imperatoribus (sc. Scipioni et Mummio) mores, diversa fuerunt studia,” Vell. 1, 13, 3: “dividere bona diversis,” Hor. S. 1, 3, 114; cf. id. ib. 1, 1, 3; Vell. 2, 60 fin. et saep.—Of conflicting passions: Pentheum diripuisse aiunt Bacchas; “nugas fuisse credo, prae quo pacto ego divorsus distrahor,” Plaut. Merc. 2, 4, 2.— Comp.: “divorsius,” Lucr. 3, 803.—
2. In partic. (like contrarius, II. 2.), inimically opposed, of hostile or opposite opinions, unfriendly, hostile: “certa igitur cum illo, qui a te totus diversus est,” Cic. Ac. 2, 32: “regio ab se diversa,” Liv. 32, 38: “diversos iterum conjungere amantes,” Prop. 1, 10, 15: “acies,” Tac. A. 13, 57; 14, 30: “factio,” Suet. Caes. 20; id. Tib. 3 fin.; cf. “partes,” id. Caes. 1: “diversae partis advocatus,” opposite, id. Gramm. 4: “diversi ordiuntur, etc.,” Tac. A. 2, 10: “subsellia,” of the opponents, Quint. 11, 3, 133; cf. Tac. Or. 34: “minuere invidiam aut in diversum eam transferre,” Quint. 11, 1, 64: “defectio Tarentinorum utrum priore anno an hoc facta sit, in diversum auctores trahunt,” are not agreed, Liv. 25, 11 fin.; cf.: “nullo in diversum auctore,” Tac. A. 12, 69: “consistentis ex diverso patroni,” on the opposite side, Quint. 4, 1, 42: “ex diverso,” id. 5, 11, 43; Tac. A. 13, 40; id. H. 4, 16 et saep.; “also: e diverso,” Plin. 4, 4, 5, § 9; Just. 30, 4, 6; the latter in Sueton, and the elder Pliny, i. q. contra, on the contrary: “sunt qui putent, etc. ... Alii e diverso, etc.,” Suet. Caes. 86; cf. id. Aug. 27; id. Dom. 9; Plin. 2, 50, 51, § 135; 5, 9, 10, § 56 al.; cf. Sillig. ad Plin. 14, 2, 4, § 35; Gai. Inst. 2, 16.
II. In different directions, apart, separate (so most freq. in all periods and kinds of writing).
A. Lit.: dispennite hominem divorsum et distennite, spread out in opposite directions, i. e. his limbs, Plaut. Mil. 5, 14: “diversae state,” id. Truc. 4, 3, 14; cf.: “diversi pugnabant,” separately, Caes. B. C. 1, 58, 4; so, “jam antea diversi audistis,” Sall. C. 20, 5; and: “sive juncti unum premant, sive id diversi gerant bellum,” Liv. 10, 25: “diversi dissipatique in omnes partes fugere,” Caes. B. G. 2, 24, 4; cf.: “ex diversa fuga in unum collecti,” Liv. 42, 8: “age diversos et disice corpora ponto,” Verg. A. 1, 70: “diversi consules discedunt,” Liv. 10, 33, 10; 22, 56; Nep. Dat. 11, 3 al.; cf.: “quo diversus abis?” away, Verg. A. 5, 166; 11, 855: “qui (portus) cum diversos inter se aditus habeant, in exitu conjunguntur et confluunt,” Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 52 fin.; cf. id. Agr. 2, 32, 87; Liv. 40, 22: “in locis disjunctissimis maximeque diversis,” very widely separated, Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 4; so, “loca,” id. ib. 16; Caes. B. G. 2, 22, 1 et saep.—Cf. in the sup.: “diversissimis locis subeundo ad moenia,” Liv. 4, 22: “itinera,” Caes. B. G. 7, 16 fin.; id. B. C. 3, 67, 2: “proelium,” fought in different places, Hirt. B. G. 8, 19, 2 et saep.: sunt ea innumerabilia, quae a diversis emebantur, by various people, individuals (as an indefinite term for persons), Cic. Phil. 2, 37. —Poet., i. q. remotus, remote, far-distant: “Aesar,” i. e. flowing in another, remote country, Ov. M. 15, 23; cf. Verg. A. 3, 4; 11, 261; 12, 621; “708: diverso terrarum distineri,” distance apart, remoteness, Tac. A. 3, 59.—
B. Trop.
1. Different, unlike, dissimilar: “varia et diversa genera et bellorum et hostium,” Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 10 fin.; cf.: “variae et diversae et diffusae disputationes,” id. de Or. 3, 16, 61; 1, 61 fin.: “diversa ac dissimilis pars,” id. Inv. 1, 23, 33; cf.: “diversa studia in dissimili ratione,” id. Cat. 2, 5: “flumina diversa locis,” Verg. G. 4, 367; so Ov. M. 1, 40: “oris habitu simili aut diverso,” Quint. 9, 3, 34 al.: “ut par ingenio, ita morum diversus,” Tac. A. 14, 19: “a proposita ratione diversum,” Cic. Brut. 90; cf.: “ab his longe diversae litterae,” Sall. C. 34 fin.; Quint. 4, 1, 9; cf. also id. 2, 10, 7: “huic diversa sententia eorum fuit,” id. 3, 6, 32. —Cf. so with dat., Quint. 2, 3, 10; 3, 10, 3 et saep.—With gen.: “diversa omnium, quae umquam accidere, civilium armorum facies,” Tac. A. 1, 49: “diversa in hac ac supradicta alite quaedam,” Plin. 10, 12, 15, § 32: “eruca diversae est, quam lactuca, naturae,” id. 19, 8, 44, § 154.—
2. Divided, fluctuating, hesitating, inconsistent: “metu ac libidine divorsus agebatur,” Sall. J. 25, 6: “qui diversus animi modo numen pavescere, modo, etc.,” Tac. H. 4, 84: “diversi fremat inconstantia vulgi,” Tib. 4, 1, 45.—Adv.: dī-verse or dīvorse (acc. to II.), different ways, hither and thither; in different directions (very rarely): corpora prostrata diverse jacebant, scattered, Auct. B. Afr. 40 fin.; so, “pauci paulo divorsius conciderant,” Sall. C. 61, 3: “multifariam diverseque tendere,” Suet. Galb. 19.—
B. Trop. of the mind: “curae meum animum divorse trahunt,” Ter. And. 1, 5, 25: “ab eodem de eadem re diverse dicitur,” differently, Cic. Inv. 1, 50: “diversissime adfici,” very variously, Suet. Tib. 66: “uti verbo ab alicujus sententia diverse,” in a different meaning, Gell. 6, 17, 9.
