To bring into sundrie partes: to dinide or pull asunder: to open that is shurte. Diducere & Contrahere, contraria. Cic. Comprimere & Diducere digitos, similiter contraria. Cice. To holde asunder the fingers. Diducere aciem in cornua Li. To diuide an armie into two wings. Diducere aquam in vias. Cato. To draine the water by sundrie partes into the wayes. Diducere argumenta in digitos. Quint. To marke or deuise arguments on his singers. Assem in centum partes diducere. Hor. To diuide. Diducere complexus. Propert. To separate clippings or embracings. Fauces immani diducit hiatu. Sil. Hee gapeth maruailous wide. Flumina in riuos diducuntur. Quint. To diuide into. Humum cootinuam diduxit. Ou. It made the close earth to chappe or gape. Nubem diducere auris subitis. Cic. In contrarias partes diducere aliqua. Cic. To pull or drawe into contrarie partes. Risu diducere rictum auditoris. Hor. In studia Senatum diduxerat. Tacit. Hee sette the Senate in factions one against an other. In species rursus hæc omnia diducuntur. Quint. All these be againe diuided into particular kindes. Vestem diduxit ab ore, Ouid. Hee pulled hys garment from his face.

I. Lit.

A. In gen.: ventus eas (sc. nubes) leviter diducit, Lucr. 6, 215: cum compresserat digitos pugnumque fecerat ... cum autem diduxerat et manum dilataverat, etc., Cic. Or. 32, 113; of the graceful movements of the arms in dancing: molli diducit candida gestu brachia, Prop. 3, 15, 5 (Müll. al. deducit): candida seu molli diducit brachia motu, Stat. S. 3, 5, 66; cf. oculum, Cels. 7, 7, 4: supercilium volnere diductum, Plin. 11, 37, 57, 157: pedem et crus in diversa, Cels. 8, 22: os, Plin. 32, 4, 14, 36: nares, Quint 11, 3, 80: labra, ib. 81: fauces immani hiatu, to stretch, Sil. 3, 194: rictum risu, Hor. S. 1, 10, 7 et saep.: nodos manu, Ov. M. 2, 560; cf.: complexus vestros, Prop. 1, 13, 19: humum, Ov. M. 8, 588; cf.: arva et urbes, Verg. A. 3, 419: terram, id. G. 2, 354: scopulos (Hannibal), Juv. 10, 153; cf. of natural cleavings of the earth, Tac. A. 2, 47; 12, 69: cibum, i. e. to digest = digerere, Cels. 3, 4 fin.; v. the foll.: mixti neque inter se diducti colores, Cels. 2, 8 et saep.—With in: crudam materiam in corpus omne diduci, Cels. praef.: maxima flumina in rivos diducuntur, Quint. 5, 13, 13; cf.: domum in multos diductam recessus, id. 11, 2, 18. —

B. In partic. milit. t. t., to separate the forces, in a good or (more freq.) in a bad sense; to divide, distribute; to disperse, scatter: diductis nostris paullatim navibus, Caes. B. C. 2, 6, 2: instruunt aciem diductam in cornua, Liv. 5, 38, 1 Drak.; cf.: diducta propere in cornua levis armatura est, id. 21, 55, 5: diductis in latera viribus, Front. Strat. 2, 3, 8 Oud.: ordines, id. ib. 2, 3, 12; 2, 6, 4: copias, Caes. B. C. 3, 111, 2: cornua, Liv. 31, 21, 14: robur, Luc. 3, 584 Cort.; and poet.: choros, Verg. A. 5, 581: ubi Crassus animadvertit, suas copias propter exiguitatem non facile diduci, Caes. B. G. 3, 23, 7; 6, 34, 5; id. B. C. 3. 40, 2; Sall. J. 25, 9; Liv. 26, 41; Tac. A. 2, 11; 4, 2; Front. Strat. 4, 7, 31 et saep.—

II. Trop. (mostly post-Aug.): cum diducaris ab eo, quicum libentissime vixeris, Cic. Inv. 1, 55 fin.; cf.: amicitias cohaerentes, Sen. de Ira, 2, 29: nuptias, id. Contr. 2, 13; cf. matrimonium, Suet. Oth. 3; and: si repudio diducta fuerit, Sen. Contr. 2, 10: diducta civitas ut civili bello, divided into parties, Tac. A. 4, 17; cf. below: in sterili jejunaque materia, eandem speciem laudis diducere ac spargere, Plin. Pan. 66, 1; cf. argumenta, Quint. 4, 2, 82; 5, 13, 12: nomina, id. 6, 3, 17 Spald.: litem domini et conductoris, i. e. to settle, adjust, Col. 3, 13, 12 et saep.—With in: assem in partes centum, Hor. A. P. 326: in tres partes medicina diducta est, Cels. praef.: haec omnia rursus in species, Quint. 2, 14, 5; cf. id. 5, 10, 61; 94 al.: divisionem in digitos, to tell off on one's fingers, id. 4, 5, 24 (coupled with partiri); cf. argumenta, id. 11, 1, 53: animum in tam multiplex officium, id. 20, 7, 9: ultio senatum in studia diduxerat, Tac. H. 4, 6; 2, 68; cf.: seditio in diversa consilia diduxerat vulgum, Curt. 9, 1; of classification, to divide: in tres partes medicinam, Cels. praef.