Solvi. Lucr., iii. 330. Extrahere haud facile est quin omnia dissotoantur. It is not easy to withdraw … without dissolving all alike. (Monro.) Lucr., i. 764. Atque in eas rursum res omnia dissolvuntur. Spargi. Tac., Ann. i. 56. Reliqui omissis pagis vicisque disperguntur. The remainder disperse. Lucr., i. 309. In parvas igitur partis dispergitur umor. The moisture disperses into particles. Sterni. Virg., Aen. xi. 87. Sternitur et toto projectus corpore terrae. The meaning here evidently is that Acoetes, while being led along, keeps throwing himself on the ground, as Heyne rightly takes it. So Conington in loco. Cf. common use of stratus for “laying oneself flat.” Hor., Od. i. 1, 22. Sumi. Ovid Met. i. 742. Contrahitur rictus; redeunt humerique manusque; Ungulaque in quinos dilapsa absumitur ungues. Her great wide mouth contracts, her shoulders and hands return, and each hoof has shrunk and divides into five fingers (lit. nails). Suspendi. Lucr., iii. 196. Namque papaveris aura suspensa levisque. Lucr., v. 1096. Suspensi teneros imitantur dentibus haustus. With lightly-closing teeth they make a feint of swallowing them. (Monro.) Hor., Sat. i. 6, 74. Laevo suspensi loculos tabulamque lacerto. Having hung bag and slate on the left arm. Tegi. Tac., Ann. ii. 13. Contectus humeros ferina pelle adit castrorum vias. Ov., Met. i. 43. Jussit et extendi campos, subsidere valles, Fronde tegi silvas, lapidosos surgere montes. He bad also the plains to extend, the vales to sink, the woods to take their leafy covering, the rocky mountains rise. Tendi. Cf. Lewis and Short, s.v. extendere, who mark the verb as “middle.”