divisibility,
διαίρ-εσις,εως,ἡ,
A. divisibility,
Arist. Metaph. 1016b4 , al.
2. Medic.,dissection,
ζῴων
Gal. 4.664
.
b. venesection,
Antyll. ap. Orib. 7.9.2 .
c. surgical operation,
Phld. Lib. p.56O.
d. pl.,wounds,Diod.Rh. p.53H.
II. dividing, distribution,of money, Hdt. 7.144 ; of spoil, X. Cyr. 4.5.55 ;ἐν διαιρέσει [ψήφων]in the reckoningof the voteson either side,
A. Eu. 749 ; ἀντίγραφον διαιρέσεως
BGU 1013.1
(i A.D.).
III. distinction,
ἀγνωσίας τε καὶ γνώσεως
Pl. Sph. 267b
;[τῆς δημοκρατίας καὶ τῆς ὀλιγαρχίας] Arist. Pol. 1294a34 .
IV. in Logic,divisionof genus into species, τῶν γενῶν κατ' εἴδη δ.
Pl. Sph. 267d
; ἡ διὰ τῶν γενῶν δ.
Arist. APr. 46a31
; opp.συναγωγαί,
Pl. Phdr. 266b .
b. separationof subject and predicate, περὶ σύνθεσιν καὶ δ. ἐστι τὸ ψεῦδος καὶ τὸ ἀληθές
Arist. Int. 16a12
.
2. ὁ παρὰ τὴν δ. [λόγος] the fallacy ofdivision(cf.σύνθεσις), Id. SE 177a33 .
V. Rhet.,divisionordistributioninto heads, Hermog. Prog. 7 , Stat. 1 , Onos. 2 tit., etc.
VI. Gramm.,resolutionof a diphthong into two syllables, A.D. Pron. 87.2 , al.; of one word into two, κατὰ διαίρεσιν ἀναγνωστέον
Ath. 11.492a
, cf. Trypho Trop. 1.8 .
VII. in Metric,division of a line at the close of a foot, diaeresis,
Aristid.Quint. 1.24 .
VIII. Math.,δ. λόγου transformationof a ratiodividendo,
Euc. 5
Def. 15 ; κατὰ διαίρεσιν
Archim. Sph.Cyl. 2.6
.
IX. divisionof troops, of the Romancohors,
J. AJ 7.14.9 .
