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• quarter (v.), also the subs. in phrr. = verb:

I. To divide into 4 parts, or q.s (and sometimes indef. = to part: cf. to divide: to cut: to cleave, etc.): expr. by verbs of these meanings, usu. with in IV. partes, quadrĭfărĭam, adv., or quadrĭfĭdus (adj.), as:

A. In gen. sense:

1. dīvĭdo, vīsi, vīsum, 3: quadrifariam div.: cf. conjurati quadrifariam se diviserunt, Liv. 38, 1 in IV. partes div. (like Gallia in III. partes divisa est, Caes. B. G. 1, 1: vicus in II. partes flumine dividebatur, id. ib. 3, 1): cf. qui (fluvius) inde dividitur in IV. capita, Vulg. Gen. ii. 10: cf. diviserunt sibi (among them) vestimenta mea, Vulg. Ps. xxi. 9 (xxii. 18), compared with id. Matt. xxvii. 35; Marc. xv. 24; Luc. xxiii. 34; Joh. xix. 23, et fecerunt IV. partes.
2. dispertĭo, īvi or ĭi, ītum, 4, to q. in the way of distribution: (and sometimes the simple partĭo): cf. epulas trifariam semper, interdum quadrifariam dispertiebat, Suet. Vit. 13: (fig., to divide into 4 heads), cf. ea quae ad mortales pertinent quadrifariam dispertirem, in homines, in loca, in tempora, in res, Varr. in Non. 92, 16.
3. distrĭbŭo, ŭi, ūtum, 3: in IV. partes dist. (like reliquum populum distribuit in V. classes, Cic. Rep. 2, 22: copias in III. partes, Caes. B. G. 6, 32: cf. No. II.).

B. By violent action: to cut, cleave, tear, etc., into q.s: Esp. to q. the human body, and usu. as a mode of execution: (including the gen. sense of cutting up, or tearing limb from limb: cf. to dismember).

1. scindo, scĭdi, scissum, 3: he cleft the oak into 4 q.s with wedges, quadrifidam quercum cuneis scindebat, Virg. Aen. 7, 509: cf. Vulg. Joh. xix. 23, non scindamus eam (tunicam): also comp. discindo. Also findo, 3; and comp. diffindo.
2. sĕco, ŭi, ctum, 1. Join. to q. and divide among them the body, secare atque partiri corpus (of a debtor to several creditors), Gell. 20, 1: comp. dissĕco (like, multos medios dis. Suet. Cal. 27), and gen. expr. by verbs signifying to cut: cf. corpus in partes (IV.) concidere, Petron. 141, 2.
3. dīvĭdo, 3. Join: si omne animal secari ac dividi potest (cut up and q.'d), Cic. N. D. 3, 12 (adapted): to chop into 4 q.s, quadrifariam aliquem securi div. (by analogy to Hor. S. 1, 1, 100, at hunc liberta securi divisit medium).
4. distrăho, xi, ctum, 3: esp. of the case of Mettius Fufetius (though, strictly, he was halved, not q.'d, but the idea is exactly parallel): v. Liv. 1, 28, and Varr. in Non. 287, 22: your body shall be severed into q.s, corpus passim distrahendum dabis, Liv. l. c.: to q. a criminal and expose the q.s: cf. in partes duas [substitute IV.] distractum ab utroque viae latere posuit, Sen. de Ira, 5, 16, fin. Join: membra divellere ac distrah., Cic. Sull. 20, ad fin.
5. dīrīpĭo, ŭi, reptum, 3, to tear in q.s: cf. Pentheum diripuisse aiunt Bacchas, Pl. Merc. 2, 4, 1: cf. Sunt membra viri manibus direpta nefandis, Ov. M. 3, 731.
6. discerpo, psi, ptum, 3, to tear a person into q.s, aliquem, Liv. 1, 16: a carcass, cadaver, Suet. Dom. 15: a bird, avem, id. Caes. 81: cf. membra gruis, disc., Hor. S. 2, 8, 86. Join (fig.), animus nec secerni nec dividi nec discerpi nec distrahi potest, Cic. Tusc. 1, 29, 71.
7. lăcĕro, 1: to q. slowly limb by limb, paulatim et per singulos artus lac., Sen. de Ira, 3, 18: and dīlăcĕro: also lănĭo, 1, and dīlănĭo (to rend in q.s, rare).
8. dĕartŭo, 1, to q. limb from limb (very rare): (fig.) Pl. Capt. 3, 4, 108: cf. id. ib. 3, 5, 14.
9. excarnĭfĭco, 1 (rare): Cic. N. D. 3, 33, ad fin.: Suet. Vit. 17;

II. Trans.: to provide q.s for (a person, army, etc.), intr. to take up one's q.s with, to be q.'d upon: v. quarters.
III. In heraldry: to q. arms:

A. of the herald, *insignia per scutum ordinare, dividere, disponere, partiri:
B. of the bearer, *insignia sumere; sibi accommodare; in scutum suum reponere.

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