dissaepio

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

dis-saepĭo (less correctly dis-sēpio), psi, ptum, 4, v. a., to part off by a boundary, to separate, divide (very rare).

I Lit.: aër dissaepit colles, atque aëra montes, Lucr. 1, 998; cf. parietibus, Varr. L. L. 5, § 162 Müll.: vix ea limitibus dissaepserat omnia certis, Ov. M. 1, 69; cf.: bene dissaepti foedera mundi, Sen. Med. 335.—

B Transf., to tear apart , tear to pieces : dissaepto aggere utitur, et truncas rupes in templa Praecipitat, Stat. Th. 10, 880.—

II Trop.: tenui sane muro dissaepiunt id quod excipiunt, * Cic. Rep. 4, 4.

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