Bonus animus in mala re dimidium est mali=--Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.
Prudens questio dimidium scientiae: to know what to ask is half of every science.
I should be glad if some one of your Baconian annotators would direct me to that famous maxim which Coleridge ascribes to the great philosopher, "Dimidium scientiae, prudens quaestio," in the original.
Grosart suggests, Herrick may have had in mind the "Dimidium facti qui cœpit habet" of Horace, I.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dimidium" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
