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digestio

digestio · f

A dividing of food, dissolving, digestion

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Where it lives

Verus 1 · 4.86/10k
De Re Coquinaria 3 · 1.91/10k
De Anima 1 · 0.42/10k
Naturalis Historia 9 · 0.23/10k
De Medicina 2 · 0.2/10k
De Oratore 1 · 0.17/10k
Institutio Oratoria 3 · 0.17/10k

What it meant

dīgestĭo — Lewis & Short

dīgestĭo, ōnis, f.id..

I A dividing of food, dissolving, digestion (post-Aug.): sive concoctio sit illa, sive tantum digestio, Cels. 1 praef. § 63; 2, 14, § 7: facilis ciborum, Quint. 11, 3, 19; Capitol. Ver. 4; Sol. 27, 13; in plur., Macr. S. 7, 4.—

II An orderly distribution, division, arrangement.

A In gen.: annorum, Vell. 2, 53 fin.: (Italiae) in literas, i. e. an orderly description (shortly before, descriptio), Plin. 3, 5, 6, § 46.—

B Esp., as rhet. t. t., enumeration = merismo/s, Cic. de Or. 3, 53, 205; Quint. 9, 1, 31; 9, 2, 2; cf. id. 11, 33, 114.

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