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|lshtext=<b>portĭo</b>: ōnis (<br /><b>I</b> abl. [[sing]]. portioni, Inscr. Lat. 206, 38), f. kindr. [[with]] [[pars]] and [[πόρω]], to [[share]], [[impart]], a [[share]], [[part]], [[portion]] ([[post]]-Aug., [[except]] in the [[phrase]] pro portione; v. in foll. II.).<br /><b>I</b> Lit.: [[Luna]] aequā portione divisa, Plin. 2, 9, 6, § 42: ex his [[portio]] in Italiā consedit, [[portio]] in Illyricos [[sinus]] penetravit, Just. 24, 4, 2: hereditatis, id. 36, 2, 5; cf. id. 21, 1, 2: [[quamvis]] [[quota]] [[portio]] faecis Achaei, Juv. 3, 61: mox in proflatum additur tertia [[portio]] aeris collectanei, Plin. 34, 9, 20, § 97: pari portione [[inter]] se mixta pix, [[cera]], [[alumen]], etc., Cels. 4, 24; cf.: glandis [[cortex]] et [[nitrum]] paribus portionibus, id. 5, 18, 4: nil [[natura]] portionibus parit, by parts, [[piecemeal]], Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 177: [[portio]] brevissima vitae, Juv. 9, 127: [[pars]] A carnaniae, [[quam]] in portionem belli acceperat, as his [[share]] for his services in the [[war]], Just. 28, 1, 1: vocare aliquem in portionem muneris, id. 5, 2, 9: magna mortalium [[portio]], Plin. 8, 28, 42, § 102.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf., a [[relation]] to [[any]] [[thing]], [[proportion]], i. q. [[proportio]].—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> In gen., adverb.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; prō portiōne ([[class]].; not in Cæs.), in [[proportion]], proportionally, [[relatively]]: pro portione ea omnia facito, [[Cato]], R. R. 106 fin.: pro portione ad majorem fundum vel minorem addere, Varr. R. R. 1, 18, 3: Mamertinis pro portione imperaretur, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 21, § 55; id. Fl. 14, 32; Liv. 34, 50: [[oportet]] ut aedibus ac templis vestibula et [[aditus]], sic causis principia pro portione rerum praeponere, in [[relation]], in [[proportion]], Cic. de Or. 2, 79, 320; so, pro ratā portione, Plin. 11, 15, 15, § 40: pro suā [[scilicet]] portione, Quint. 10, 7, 28; Censor. de Die Nat. 3.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; portĭōne ([[post]]-Aug.): [[cerebrum]] omnia habent animalia, quae sanguinem: sed [[homo]] portione maximum, proportionally, Plin. 11, 37, 49, § 133; so id. 11, 37, 70, § 183; 11, 2, 1, § 2; cf.: hac portione mediocribus agris semina [[praebenda]], Col. 2, 9, 1: quādam portione, Quint. 6, 1, 26: eādem portione, id. 11, 3, 139.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>3</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ad portiō-nem ([[rare]] and [[only]] [[post]] Aug.), Plin. 14, 21, 27, § 133; 24, 8, 30, § 46: ad suam [[quisque]] portionem, id. 36, 16, 25, § 9: [[supra]] portionem, Col. 7, 1, 2.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Subst.: [[eadem]] ad [[decem]] homines servabitur [[portio]], the [[same]] [[proportion]], Curt. 7, 11, 12: portionem servare, Col. 11, 2, 87; cf.: proportione servatā, id. 8, 11, 6.
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