ad portionem

portĭo, ōnis ( abl. sing. portioni, Inscr. Lat. 206, 38), f. [kindr. with pars and porô, to share, impart], a share, part, portion (post-Aug., except in the phrase pro portione; v. in foll. II.).

I.

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.—

II.

Transf., a relation to any thing, proportion, i. q. proportio.—

A.

In gen., adverb.

1.

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.—

2.

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.—

3.

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.—

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.