I.to cut asunder, cut up, cut to pieces, divide, pierce, cut through.
I. Lit.: “harundinetum,” to thin out by cutting, Col. 4, 32, 4: “venas,” Plin. 11, 37, 65, § 174: “radices,” id. 18, 19, 49, 2, § 177: “olivas acuto calamo,” Pall. Nov. 22, 3: “lacus, interciso monte, in Nar defluit,” Cic. Att. 4, 15, 5; cf.: “an Isthmos intercidi possit,” Quint. 8, 3, 46: “aedis,” Dig. 9, 2, 49: “flammas ignis,” Vulg. Psa. 28, 7: “pontem,” to cut down, Liv. 36, 6.—
B. Esp., of accounts, to mutilate, falsify: “commentarios,” Plin. Ep. 6, 22, 4: “rationes dominicas,” Dig. 11, 3, 1, § 5. —
II. Transf., to part, divide, cut up, mangle, mutilate, destroy: “sententias,” to pervert in reading, Gell. 13, 30, 9: “lux intercisa,” Stat. Th. 2, 184: “jugum mediocri valle a castris intercisum,” separated, Hirt. B. G. 8, 14: dies intercisi, half-holidays: intercisi dies sunt, per quos mane et vesperi est nefas; “medio tempore, inter hostiam caesam et exta porrecta, fas: a quo quod fas tum intercedit: aut eo est intercisum nefas, intercisum,” Varr. L. L. 6, § 31 Müll.; cf. Macr. S. 1, 16; Ov. F. 1, 49. — Hence, intercīsē , adv., piecemeal, interruptedly, confusedly, Cic. Part. Or. 7, 24; Gell. 11, 2, 5: “dictum,” syncopated, id. 15, 3, 4.
