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|lshtext=<b>partītĭo</b>: ōnis, f. 2. [[partio]],<br /><b>I</b> a [[sharing]], [[parting]], [[partition]]; a [[division]], [[distribution]].<br /><b>I</b> In gen.: si quā in re discrepavit ab Antonii divisione nostra [[partitio]], Cic. de Or. 3, 30, 119: [[aequabilis]] praedae [[partitio]], id. Off. 2, 11, 40: aerarii, id. Sest. 24, 54; esp., the [[division]] of an [[inheritance]], id. Caecin. 5, 15; id. Leg. 2, 20, 50 sqq.: partitionem artium facere, id. de Or. 1, 6, 22; id. Fin. 1, 13, 45; Quint. 3, 4, 1: nec partitione minuitur, Aug. Civ. Dei, 10, 3 init.—<br /><b>II</b> In partic.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> In philos. lang., a [[logical]] [[division]] [[into]] parts or members, a [[partition]]: definitiones aliae sunt partitionum, aliae divisionum: partitionum, cum res ea, quae proposita est, [[quasi]] in membra discerpitur ... divisionum [[autem]] [[definitio]] formas omnes complectitur, quae sub eo genere sunt, [[quod]] definitur, etc., Cic. Top. 5, 28; cf.: in partitione [[quasi]] membra sunt: ut corporis [[caput]], umeri, [[manus]], latera, crura, [[pedes]] et [[cetera]]: in divisione formae sunt, quas [[Graeci]] ἰδέας vocant: nostri, si qui haec [[forte]] tractant, [[species]] appellant, id. ib. 6 fin.; so id. ib. 8, 34; Quint. 4, 5, 1 sqq.; 15, 10, 63; 7, 1, 1.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> In rhet., a [[rhetorical]] [[division]] [[into]] parts or heads, a [[partition]], the Gr. [[διαίρεσις]]>; also used as a [[title]] of [[rhetorical]] treatises: recte habita in causā [[partitio]] illustrem et perspicuam totam efficit orationem, Cic. Inv. 1, 22, 31 sq.; Quint. 1, 2, 13.—So the [[title]] of [[Cicero]]'s [[treatise]] De Partitione Oratoriā.