divarico

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

dī-vārĭco, no perf., ātum, 1, v. a. and n.

I Act. , to spread asunder , to stretch apart (very rare): taleas super terram, Cato R. R. 45 fin. : tigna, Vitr. 10, 2: hominem in ea statua, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 40: divaricatis cruribus, Prud. στεφ. 5, 252; cf. pedibus, Amm. 22, 11.—*

II Neutr. , to be spread out : ungulae, Varr. R. R. 2, 5, 8.

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