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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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Contents (2 entries · 16 senses)
S&H Smith & Hall (1)
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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• divert:
    1. I. To turn off the waters of a river:
      1. 1. dērīvo, 1: v. to draw off.
      2. 2. āverto, ti, sum, 3: to d. rivers: flumina a., Cic.
    2. II. To turn the attention or emotions in a new direction:
      1. 1. dērīvo, 1: to d. any one's anger and turn it on oneself, iram alicujus in se d., Cic.
      2. 2. āverto, ti, sum, 3: to d. a person from an undertaking, aliquem ab incepto a., Liv.
      3. 3. dēpello, pŭli, pulsum, 3 (like averto, to induce to abandon): to d. a person from his expectation and aim, aliquem de spe conatuque d., Cic.
      4. 4. āvŏco, 1 (to call off or be the means of doing so): pleasure has never d.'d my attention from (seeking) another's good, ab nullius unquam commodo voluptas me avocavit, Cic.
      5. 5. dēvŏco, 1: v. to call away.
      6. 6. abdūco, xi, ctum, 3: v. to draw off (fig.).
    3. III. To amuse:
      1. 1. oblecto, 1 (for diff. from delecto, comp. amusement, fin.): v. to amuse.
      2. 2. lūdo, si, sum, 3 (to d. oneself): the mind d.s itself with such pursuits, l. in istis animus, Sen.: v. to play.
    4. IV. As milit. t. t.:
      1. 1. distringo, nxi, ctum, 3: to d. the enemy's forces, ad distringendas copias hostium, Liv.
      2. 2. distrăho, xi, ctum, 3: to d. the enemy's attention, distrahendo hosti (better, ad distrahendum hostem), Tac. Comp. to distract.
R&A Riddle & Arnold (1)
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• DIVERT
  • To turn off from any course, flectere; declinare aliquem, or aliquid de re (☞ declinare in this sense not Ciceronian; but Liv., si quo inde agmen declinare voluissem; and Quintilian, neque spe neque metu declinatus animus): animum et cogitationes avocare a re (with reference to the mind): derivare (of rivers, etc.; also IMPROP., rem in aliquid): deducere (to lead or move astray): avertere (to give a different direction): abducere: abstrahere (to divert entirely): avocare (to call off; aliquem ab aliqua re: to anything, ad aliquid. Also of “diverting forces some other way,” [Davies], milites ad aliud bellum avocare, Liv.). To divert the course of a river, flumen derivare, avertere; aquam de fluvio or ex flumine derivare (to lead off the water): to divert the river from its usual, or into another channel, flumen novo alveo avertere: to divert anybody from his purpose, aliquem a consilio revocare: not to allow one’s self to be diverted from one’s purpose, perstare in aliqua re.
  • Hence, to turn the mind from anything it is intent on, distrahere (e.g., alicujus industriam in plura studia): aliquem distinere (to distract his attention): distringere aliquem (to occupy with more than one object). To divert anybody’s mind from his grief, animum alicujus a curis or a solicitudine abducere: aliquem oblectare.
  • Hence, to amuse, Vid.