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the delineating of character

  • 1 descriptio

    dēscriptĭo, ōnis (in MSS. and edd. often confounded with discriptio, v. infra), f. [describo] (freq. in Cic.), a marking out, delineation, copy, transcript: in concreto.
    I.
    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 plur.:

    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.,
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    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.—
    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 plur.:

    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, [p. 556] e. g. Cic. Rep. 2, 22; id. de Off. 1, 7, 21 saep.)

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > descriptio

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