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1. inter-cīdo, īdi, īsum, 3, v. a. [caedo], to cut asunder, cut up, cut to pieces, divide, pierce, cut through.

  1. I. Lit.: harundinetum, to thin out by cutting, Col. 4, 32, 4: venas, Plin. 11, 37, 65, § 174: radices, id. 18, 19, 49, 2, § 177: olivas acuto calamo, Pall. Nov. 22, 3: lacus, interciso monte, in Nar defluit, Cic. Att. 4, 15, 5; cf.: an Isthmos intercidi possit, Quint. 8, 3, 46: aedis, Dig. 9, 2, 49: flammas ignis, Vulg. Psa. 28, 7: pontem, to cut down, Liv. 36, 6.
    1. B. Esp., of accounts, to mutilate, falsify: commentarios, Plin. Ep. 6, 22, 4: rationes dominicas, Dig. 11, 3, 1, § 5.
  2. II. Transf., to part, divide, cut up, mangle, mutilate, destroy: sententias, to pervert in reading, Gell. 13, 30, 9: lux intercisa, Stat. Th. 2, 184: jugum mediocri valle a castris intercisum, separated, Hirt. B. G. 8, 14: dies intercisi, half-holidays: intercisi dies sunt, per quos mane et vesperi est nefas; medio tempore, inter hostiam caesam et exta porrecta, fas: a quo quod fas tum intercedit: aut eo est intercisum nefas, intercisum, Varr. L. L. 6, § 31 Müll.; cf. Macr. S. 1, 16; Ov. F. 1, 49.
    Hence, intercīsē, adv., piecemeal, interruptedly, confusedly, Cic. Part. Or. 7, 24; Gell. 11, 2, 5: dictum, syncopated, id. 15, 3, 4.

2. inter-cĭdo, ĭdi, 3, v. n. [cado], to fall between.

  1. I. Lit.: ita in arto stipatae erant naves ut vix ullum telum in mari vanum intercideret, Liv. 26, 39; 21, 8; 3, 10, 6.
  2. II. Transf.
    1. A. To occur meanwhile, to happen: si quae interciderunt, etc., Cic. Fam. 5, 8, 3.
    2. B. To fall to the ground, go to ruin, be lost, perish: pereant amici, dum una inimici intercidant, Poët. ap. Cic. Deiot. 9, 25: intercidunt ova, Plin. 9, 51, 74, § 163: credo, quia nulla gesta res insignem fecerit consulatum, memoriā intercidisse, Liv. 2, 8, 5: utrum pejorem vocas, apud quem gratia beneficii intercidit, an apud quem etiam memoria? Sen. Ben. 3, 1: augur erat: nomen longis intercidit annis, Ov. F. 2, 433: sive (opera) exstant, sive intercidere, Plin. 35, 8, 34, § 53: haec sequenti tempore interciderunt, Quint. 1, 5, 52: cum verba intercidant invalescantque temporibus, fall into disuse, become obsolete, id. 10, 2, 13: quod si interciderit tibi nunc aliquid (= excidit e memoria), something escapes you, you have forgotten something, Hor. S. 2, 4, 6.