I. Divisible: “omne animal et dissolubile et dividuum sit necesse est,” Cic. N. D. 3, 12, 29; id. Univ. 7, 19; Col. 12, praef. 8.—
II. Divided, separated (mostly poet. and in postAug. prose): “dividuom talentum faciam,” Plaut. Rud. 5, 3, 53; cf. Ter. Ad. 2, 2, 33: munere, * Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 49: “coma,” Ov. Am. 1, 5, 10: “aqua,” id. F. 1, 292: “equi amne,” id. Am. 2, 488: “luna,” i. e. a half-moon, Plin. 2, 97, 99, § 215: “arbores,” with a parted trunk, id. 16, 30, 53, § 122: “labor apium,” Sen. Ep. 121 fin.: “dividuum (me) tenent alter et alter amor,” Ov. Am. 2, 10, 10.—
B. In the later gramm.: dividuum nomen, quod a duobus vel amplioribus ad singulos habet relationem, vel ad plures in numeros pares distributos, ut uterque, alteruter, quisque, singuli, bini, terni, centeni, Prisc. p. 581 P.
