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dif-fĕro , distŭli, dīlātum, differre (
I.inf. differrier, Lucr. 1, 1088. In tmesi: “disque tulissent,Plaut. Trin. 4, 1, 14), v. a. and n.
I. Act., to carry different ways; to spread abroad, scatter, disperse, separate (cf.: reicere, proferre, procrastinare, producere, ampliare, prorogare—class.).
B. Trop.
1. To distract, disquiet, disturb a person (only ante-class.): vorsor in amoris rota miser, Exanimor, feror, differor, distrahor, diripior, Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 5: “differor clamore,id. Ep. 1, 2, 15: “cupidine ejus,id. Poen. 1, 1, 28; cf.: “amore istius,id. Mil. 4, 4, 27: “laetitia,id. Truc. 4, 1, 3: “doloribus,Ter. Ad. 3, 4, 40.—Less freq. act.: “aliquem dictis,to confound, Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 125; cf. Ter. And. 2, 4, 5 Ruhnk.—
2. To spread abroad, publish, divulge; with a personal object, to cry down, to defame (mostly anteclass. and post-Aug.; not in Cic., Caes., or Sall.).
(α). With acc. rei: cum de me ista foris sermonibus differs, Lucil. ap. Non. 284, 16; cf.: “rumores famam differant licebit nosque carpant,Varr. ib. 18: “commissam libertatem populo Rom. sermonibus,Liv. 34, 49: “promissum jus anulorum fama distulit,Suet. Caes. 33.—With acc. and inf.: “ne mi hanc famam differant, Me dedidisse, etc.,Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 63; Ter. Heaut. prol. 16; Nep. Dion. 10; Val. Fl. 1, 753.—With quasi and dependent clause: “rumore ab obtrectatoribus dilato, quasi eundem mox et discruciatum necasset,Suet. Aug. 14 et saep.—Pass. impers.: “quo pertinuit differri etiam per externos, tamquam veneno interceptus esset,Tac. A. 3, 12; cf. id. ib. 4, 25.—
(β). With acc. pers.: “aliquem pipulo,Plaut. Aul. 3, 2, 32 (cf. Varr. L. L. 7, § 103 Müll., and see pipulum): aliquem maledicendo sermonibus, Lucil. ap. Non. 284, 24: “dominos variis rumoribus,Tac. A. 1, 4: “te circum omnes alias puellas,to bring into disrepute with them, Prop. 1, 4, 22.—In the pass.: differor sermone miser, Caecil. ap. Gell. 2, 93, 10: “alterna differor invidia,Prop. 1, 16, 48.—
3. With reference to time, to defer, put off, protract, delay any thing; with a personal object also to put off, amuse with promises, get rid of (class. and very freq.).
(γ). Absol. Prov.: differ; “habent parvae commoda magna morae,Ov. F. 3, 394.
II. Neut., to differ, be different (esp. freq. since the Ciceron. period—cf.: “discrepare, distare, interesse): qui re consentientes vocabulis differebant,Cic. Fin. 4, 2 fin.; cf.: “naturis differunt, voluntate autem similes sunt,id. de Or. 2, 23: verbo differre, re esse unum, id. Caecin. 21, 59: “distare aliquid aut ex aliqua parte differre,id. ib. 14: “nihil aut non fere multum differre,id. Brut. 40 fin.: “paulum differre,id. Agr. 2, 31, 85 et saep.: “nec quicquam differre, utrumne ... an, etc.,Hor. S. 2, 3, 251; cf.: “quid enim differt, barathrone Dones quicquid habes, an? etc.,id. ib. 166.—
(γ). With inter (esp. impers.): “si nihil inter deum et deum differt,Cic. N. D. 1, 29, 80; id. Off. 1, 28, 99; id. Fin. 4, 25, 70: “nequid inter privatum et magistratum differat,id. Rep. 1, 43: “ut non multum differat inter summos et mediocres viros,id. Off. 2, 8, 30: multa sunt alia, quae inter locum et locum plurimum differunt (for which, shortly before, inter locorum naturas quantum intersit), id. Fat. 4: “haec cogitatione inter se differunt, re quidem copulata sunt,id. Tusc. 4, 11: inter se aliqua re, id. Opt. gen. 2, 6; id. N. D. 1, 7, 16; Caes. B. G. 1, 1, 2; 6, 11, 1; Quint. 12, 10, 22; 34; 67 et saep.: “quae quidem inter se plurimum differunt,id. 5, 14, 27.—
(δ). Rarely with cum: “occasio cum tempore hoc differt,Cic. Inv. 1, 27: “hoc genus causae cum superiore hoc differt, quod, etc.,id. ib. 2, 30, 92 Orell. N. cr.—(ε) Likewise rarely, differre in aliqua re, Lucr. 3, 314; Nep. Ages. 7 fin.—(ζ) Rarely, and only poet. or in post-Aug. prose, with dat.: “quod pede certo Differt sermoni sermo merus,Hor. S. 1, 4, 48: “tragico differre colori,id. A. P. 236; Quint. 2, 21, 10; Plin. 9, 35, 54, § 107; cf. id. 9, 8, 7, § 23.—Hence, diffĕ-rens , entis, P. a., different, superior: “differentius nomen,a more excellent name, Vulg. Heb. 1, 4; in Quintilian subst. n. (opp. proprium), a difference, Quint. 5, 10, 55; 58; 6, 3, 66; 7, 3, 3; 25 sq.—*Adv.: diffĕren-ter , differently, Sol. 1.
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