quā^drĭfĭdus

I. four-cleft, split into four parts, quadrifid (poet.).

I. Lit.: quadrifidas sudes, Verg. G. 2, 25: quadrifidam quercum Scindebat, id. A. 7, 509: quadrifidā trabe fingere tela Jovis, Val. Fl. 1, 663: ridicae, Col. 4, 33, 4.—

II. Transf., in gen., divided into four parts: labor, Claud. Cons. Prob. et Olybr. 268.