[621] Diversa, distant: comp. Ov. 1 Trist. 3. 19, “Nata procul Libycis aberat diversa sub oris.” In such passages ‘diversus’ seems to have the idea of distance as well as of separation. Comp. “locis tam longinquis tamque diversis” Cic. Leg. Man. 16; “locis disiunctissimis maximeque diversis” ib. 21. Mr. Munro remarks that this use of ‘diversus’ is common in the Annals, but the Annals only, of Tacitus: e. g. 3. 2, “etiam quorum diversa oppida, tamen obvii:” 4. 46, “fore ut in diversas terras traherentur.” Serv. suggests two explanations, neither of which is so simple: “Hypallage, diversus clamor: aut ex variis partibus civitatis.”
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