To differ: to be vnlike: to be dislant: to be a space one from an other. Nimium distant foro carioæ. Hor. Laxè distare, Vide LAXVS. Meta vtraque distare. Ouid. Nihil distat, Vide NIHIL. Spatio pari distari vtrinque. Ouid. To be equally in the middle of two things. Distare. Cic. To differ or be vnlike. Quibus rebus exculta hominum vita tantum distat victu & cultu bestiarum Cic. Doth so much differ: is so farre vnlike. Mores distant carmine nostro. Ouid. Sydera multum inter se altitudine aut homilitate distantia. Cic. Planets hauing great diuersitie in heigth & lownes. Inter se distant, & diuersi sunt. Cice. Nihilum distare. Hora.

I. Lit. (cf. absum), absol.: quantum summa labra (fossae) distabant, Caes. B. G. 7, 72, 1; cf. id. ib. 4, 17, 6; Cic. Phil. 2, 27, 67; Liv. 33, 1; Ov. M. 2, 241 et saep.—With inter se: turres pedes LXXX. inter se distant, Caes. B. G. 7, 72 fin.: trabes inter se binos pedes, id. ib. 7, 23, 1; cf. id. B. C. 2, 10, 2: inter se modicum spatium, Liv. 8, 8, 5: multum sidera inter se, Cic. Tusc. 5, 24, 69: hastati inter se modicum spatium, Liv. 8, 8 et saep.—With a or ab: (imago) distare a speculo, Lucr. 4, 289; so, castra ab castris, Caes. B. C. 1, 82, 3: terra ab hujus terrae continuatione, Cic. N. D. 2, 66 al.—With simple abl.: cum tanto Phrygiā Gallica distet humus, Ov. F. 4, 362; cf. id. M. 3, 145; also: foro nimium distare Carinas, Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 48: spatium, Ov. M. 11, 715. —

B. Transf., of remoteness in time: non multum aetate distantes, Quint. 12, 10, 4: non multum inter se distantes tempore, ib. 11: quantum distet ab Inacho Codrus, Hor. C. 3, 19, 1: haud multum distanti tempore, Tac. A. 3, 24.

II. Trop., of quality, to differ, be different=differre, discrepare (freq.): ut distare aliquid aut ex aliqua parte differre videatur, Cic. Caecin. 14; cf.: quia res differebant, nomina rerum distare voluerunt, id. Top. 8, 34: moribus et legibus distant (civitates), Quint. 5, 10, 40; cf. id. 6, 4, 21: in totum metaphora brevior est similitudo, eoque distat, quod, etc., id. 8, 6, 8: multum inter se distant istae facultates longeque sunt diversae atque sejunctae, Cic. de Or. 1, 49, 215: multum inter se genera dicendi, id. Or. 16, 52; Quint. 7, 2, 3: hominum vita tantum distat a victu et cultu bestiarum, Cic. Off. 2, 4, 15; so with ab, id. ib. 3, 17, 71; id. Rosc. Am. 15, 44; id. de Or. 2, 65, 263; Quint. 5, 10, 114; Hor. S. 2, 2, 53; Ov. Tr. 1, 2, 11 al.; cf.: quid enim tam distans quam a severitate comitas? Cic. Or. 10, 34. —With dat.: infido scurrae distabit amicus, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 4; so, paulum sepultae inertiae celata virtus, id. C. 4, 9, 29: quid aera lupinis, id. Ep. 1, 7, 23: pulchra et exactis minimum distantia, id. ib. 2, 1, 72: enthymema syllogismo, Quint. 5, 10, 7 al.— Impers.: distat, there is a difference: distat, sumasne pudenter An rapias, Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 44; 2, 2, 195; id. S. 2, 3, 210; Quint. 5, 10, 26.