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|lshtext=<b>dēscriptĭo</b>: ōnis (in MSS. and edd. [[often]] [[confounded]] [[with]] [[discriptio]],<br /><b>I</b><br /> v. [[infra]]), f. [[describo]] (freq. in Cic.), a marking [[out]], [[delineation]], [[copy]], [[transcript]]: in concreto.<br /><b>I</b> Lit. ([[rare]]): [[eadem]] caeli [[descriptio]], Cic. Rep. 6, 22; cf. id. ib. 1, 14: [[explicate]] descriptionem imaginemque tabularum, id. Verr. 2, 2, 77 fin. In <[[number]] opt="n">plur.</[[number]]>: numeris aut descriptionibus aliquid explicare, id. Tusc. 1, 17: volutarum, sketches, drawings, Vitr. 3, 3: [[orbis]] terrarum, maps, id. 8, 2 et saep. —Far [[more]] freq.,<br /><b>II</b> Trop.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> A [[representation]], [[delineation]], [[description]]: nominis [[brevis]] et aperta [[descriptio]], Cic. Inv. 2, 18: dilucida locorum, Quint. 9, 2, 44: regionum, id. 4, 3, 12: Siciliae, id. 11, 3, 164: convivii luxuriosi, id. 8, 3, 66 et saep.—In [[rhetor]]., the delineating of [[character]], Cic. Top. 22, 83; id. de Or. 3, 53, 205; Quint. 9, 1, 31; cf. Auct. Her. 4, 39, 51.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> A [[proper]] [[disposition]], [[order]], [[arrangement]]: via descriptionis [[atque]] ordinis (in oratione), id. de Or. 2, 9, 36: aedificandi, id. Off. 1, 39; legionum et auxiliorum, Suet. Tib. 30: [[descriptio]] centuriarum classiumque non erat, Liv. 4, 4, 2: populi, Vulg. 2 Reg. 24, 9.—In <[[number]] opt="n">plur.</[[number]]>: descriptiones temporum, id. Ac. 1, 3, 19 et saep. (Descriptio is [[often]] [[found]] in MSS. and edd. in the [[sense]] of [[distribution]], [[division]]; [[but]] here the [[proper]] form is [[discriptio]], e. g. Cic. Rep. 2, 22; id. de Off. 1, 7, 21 saep.)>