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 reckoning of the votes on either side, A. Eu.749; “ἀντίγραφον διαιρέσεως” BGU1013.1 (i A.D.).
III. distinction, “ἀγνωσίας τε καὶ γνώσεως” Pl.Sph.267b; [τῆς δημοκρατίας καὶ τῆς ὀλιγαρχίας] Arist.Pol.1294a34.
IV. in Logic, division of 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. separation of subject and predicate, “περὶ σύνθεσιν καὶ δ. ἐστι τὸ ψεῦδος καὶ τὸ ἀληθές” Arist.Int.16a12.
VI. Gramm., resolution of 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 transformation of a ratio dividendo, Euc. 5Def.15; “κατὰ διαίρεσιν” Archim.Sph.Cyl.2.6.
IX. division of troops, of the Roman cohors, J.AJ7.14.9.