Dissilio, díssilis, pen. cor. dissílui, & dissilíui, dissultum, dissilire. Apuleius. To leape downe out of a place. Dissilire, propriè in diuersas partes salire. Plin. To leape hither and thither, or from one place to an other.Ignis dissiluit. Sil. Dissilit omne solum.Ouid.The grounde choppeth or goeth asunder. Dissilire.Virg.To burst asunder: to leape asunder.Æiáque dissiliunt.Virg.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
dis-sĭlĭo, ŭi, 4, v. n. [salio], to leap or burst asunder, to fly apart.I.Lit. (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): duo de concursu corpora lata si cita dissiliant, Lucr. 1, 385; cf. id. 1, 391; 2, 87: dissiliunt ferventi saxa vapore, id. 1, 491; so, silex igni, Plin. 36, 18, 29, 135; cf.: mucro ictu dissiluit, Verg. A. 12, 740: aera (sc. frigore), id. G. 3, 363: uva pressa pede, Ov. Tr. 4, 6, 20: haec loca vi quondam et vasta convolsa ruina Dissiluisse ferunt, Verg. A. 3, 416; Sil. 5, 616: omne solum, Ov. M. 2, 260: lamina, id. ib. 5, 173; 12, 488 al.: boves degustatā bupresti, burst open, = dirumpere, Plin. 22, 22, 36, 78; id. 29, 4, 27, 89: risu, Sen. Ep. 113 fin.: (vox) ubi Dissiluit semel in multas,
has broken up into many
, Lucr. 4, 605 (preceded by: partis in cunctas dividitur vox).—B.To leap: in Jordanem, Vulg. 1 Macc. 9, 48.—II.Trop.: gratia fratrum geminorum dissiluit,
