I.to disunite, disjoin (cf.: abjungo and disjungo); to part, sever, separate, divide (class.; syn.: sepono, secerno, removeo).
I. Lit.: “sejungi seque gregari,” Lucr. 1, 452; cf.: “sejunge te aliquando ab iis, cum quibus te non tuum judicium, sed temporum vincla conjunxerunt,” Cic. Fam. 10, 6, 2: “Alpes quae Italiam a Galliā sejungunt,” Nep. Hann. 3, 4: “sejuncta sint omnia a principiis,” Lucr. 2, 861; cf. id. 1, 432 (with secretum): “aliquem ex fortissimorum civium numero,” Cic. Vatin. 10, 26.—With abl.: “sejungere matrem Jam gelidis nequeo bustis,” Stat. S. 5, 3, 241 (cf. infra, II., and v. segrego, II. B.). —With simple acc.: “quae (intervalla) non animalia solum Corpora sejungunt, sed terras ac mare totum Secernunt,” Lucr. 2, 728; cf. “mid.: discedere ac sejungi promunturia, quae antea juncta fuerant, arbitrere,” to part, separate, Just. 4, 1, 18.—
II. Trop., to separate, part, sever, etc. (a favorite word of Cic.): “quam (Fortunam) nemo ab inconstantiā et temeritate sejunget, quae digna certe non sunt deo,” Cic. N. D. 3, 24, 61; cf.: “(divum natura) Semota a nostris rebus sejunctaque longe,” Lucr. 2, 648: “defensio sejuncta a voluntate ac sententiā legis,” Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 84, § 193: “orator a philosophorum eloquentiā,” id. Or. 20, 68: “rhetorice a bono viro atque ab ipsā virtute,” Quint. 2, 17, 31: “exercitatio procul a veritate,” id. 8, 3, 23: “fortuna ab eo,” Nep. Att. 10, 5: “a spe pariendarum voluptatum sejungi,” Cic. Fin. 1, 20, 66: “liberalitatem ac benignitatem ab ambitu atque largitione,” id. de Or. 2, 25, 105: “morbum ab aegrotatione,” id. Tusc. 4, 13, 29: “istam calamitatem a rei publicae periculis,” id. Cat. 1, 9, 22: “se a verborum libertate,” id. Cael. 3, 8 (but in Tac. Or. 11 the correct read. is dejungere).—With abl.: “cui Corpore sejunctus dolor absit,” Lucr. 2, 18: “laribus sejuncta potestas Exulat,” Claud. VI. Cons. Hon. 407.
