dī-verbĕro

I. perf., ātum, 1, v. a., to strike asunder, to cut, cleave, divide.

I. Lit. (poet. and post-Aug. prose): res ictu, Lucr. 1, 223: aërias undas, id. 2, 151: volucres auras sagittā, Verg. A. 5, 503: umbras ferro, id. ib. 6, 294; 9, 411: fluctus, Curt. 4, 4: quod jubis pronos cervix diverberet armos, Nemes. Cyn. 265.—

II. Transf., to cudgel soundly: servum, Lact. 2, 7 fin.