to draw apart, part, split, separate, sever, sunder,
divide, undo, relax: digitos: risu rictum Auditoris, H.:
nodos manu, O.: arva et
urbīs, V.: fores, Ta.: scopulos (Hannibal), Iu.: vestem,
Iu.—To divide, distribute, disperse, scatter: diductis
nostris paullatim navibus, Cs.: acies diductam in
cornua, L.: choros, V.: suas copias propter exiguitatem non facile diduci, Cs.: diductā manu hostium, S.: ut hostem
diducerent, Ta. — Fig., to part, sever: cum
diducaris ab alquo: vastius diducuntur verba, are pronounced separately:
Diductos (amantīs) cogere, H.—To
divide: assem in partīs centum, H.: diducta civitas ut civili bello, divided into parties, Ta.:
animus varietate rerum diductus, distracted.
Lewis, Charlton, T. An Elementary Latin Dictionary. New York, Cincinnati, and Chicago. American Book Company. 1890.
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