E. H. Y.

_"Troilus and Cressida," Act I. Sc. 3._ (Vol. v., pp. 178. 235.).--The

meaning which your correspondent wishes to give the word _dividable_

seems exactly the one wanted in this passage; but need we go so far from

its apparent derivation as to derive it from _divitias_, _dare_?--One of

the meanings of _divido_ is to distribute,--why then should not

_dividable_ mean _distributive_, distributing their riches, &c.?

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