se disperser

Au cours des persécutions, ceux-ci s'étaient dispersés, s'habituant à vivre chacun selon son propre jugement.
During the persecutions they had scattered and each one had grown accustomed to living according to his own judgement.
Les instituteurs, ne recevant depuis longtemps aucune rémunération, s'étaient dispersés de tous côtés. Les bâtiments scolaires étaient abandonnés.
The teachers, having received no remuneration for a long time, had dispersed, and the school buildings were abandoned.
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