διαίρ-εσις, εως, ἡ,
divisibility, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1016b4, +others ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 in Medicine texts, dissection, ζῴων [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 4.664. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__2.b venesection, [[ 2nd c.AD: Antyllus Medicus cited in 4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus 7.9.2. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__2.c surgical operation, [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ παρρησίας” p.56O. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__2.d plural, wounds, [[Diod.Rh. p.53H. ] Refs]
__II dividing, distribution, of money, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.144 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of spoil, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.5.55 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν διαιρέσει [ψήφων] in the reckoning of the votes on either side, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 749; ἀντίγραφον διαιρέσεως “BGU” 1013.1 (1st c.AD). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__III distinction, ἀγνωσίας τε καὶ γνώσεως [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 267b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; [τῆς δημοκρατίας καὶ τῆς ὀλιγαρχίας] [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1294a34. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__IV in Logic, division of genus into species, τῶν γενῶν κατ᾽ εἴδη δ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 267d; ἡ διὰ τῶν γενῶν δ. 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Analytica Priora” 46a31 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to συναγωγαί, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 266b. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]