I.by pieces, by detached parts, in parts, separately: “favos congerere in qualum,” Col. 9, 15, 12: “res gestas carptim perscribere,” Sall. C. 4, 2 Kritz; cf. Plin. Ep. 6, 22, 2; 8, 4, 7: “carptim divisis agris,” into small pieces, Suet. Dom. 9: “carptim breviterque perstringi,” Plin. Pan. 25, 1 Schwarz.—
II. Meton.
A. At different places or points, on different sides: “aggredi,” Liv. 44, 41, 7: “carptim Poeni pugnavere,” id. 22, 16, 2: “superesse,” Suet. Dom. 9.—
B. Opp. to that which happens at once, at different times, at one time and another, now and then: “ut ad stipendium petendum convenirent Carthaginem, seu carptim partes, seu universi mallent,” Liv. 28, 25, 10: “dimissi carptim ac singuli,” Tac. H. 4, 46: “si (corvi) carptim vocem resorbebunt,” at intervals, Plin. 18, 35, 87, § 362.
