sectio

sectĭo, ōnis, f. [id.], a cutting, cutting off, cutting up.

I.

In gen. (so only post - Aug.):

sectio et partitio corporis (humani),

Gell. 20, 1, 39; so,

corporum,

Vitr. 2, 2:

cyma a primā sectione praestat,

Plin. 19, 8, 41, § 137.—

II.

In partic.

* A.

A cutting of diseased parts of the body:

(mandragoras) bibitur ante sectiones punctionesque, ne sentiantur,

Plin. 25, 13, 94, § 150.—

B.

A castration, App. M. 7, p. 199, 31.—

C.

Publicists' t. t., a dividing, parcelling out, or distribution by auction of captured or confiscated goods (the prevailing and class. signif.;

syn.: auctio, licitatio): cujus praedae sectio non venierit,

Cic. Inv. 1, 45, 85: sectionem ejus oppidi universam Caesar vendidit, * Caes. B. G. 2, 33; Cic. Fragm. ap. Gell. 13, 24, 6; id. Phil. 2, 26, 64; 2, 29, 71; Varr. R. R. 2, 10, 4; Tac. H. 1, 90; id. A. 13, 23; Suet. Vit. 2.—

D.

Hence, of the confiscation of property by tax-gatherers:

sectiones publicanorum,

Just. 38, 7, 8.—

E.

Geometrical t. t., division, section:

ut de ratione dividendi, de sectione in infinitum, etc.,

Quint. 1, 10, 49.