I.four-cleft, split into four parts, quadrifid (poet.).
I. Lit.: “quadrifidas sudes,” Verg. G. 2, 25: “quadrifidam quercum Scindebat,” was cleaving in four, id. A. 7, 509: “quadrifidā trabe fingere tela Jovis,” Val. Fl. 1, 663: “ridicae,” Col. 4, 33, 4.—
II. Transf., in gen., divided into four parts: labor, Claud. Cons. Prob. et Olybr. 268.