dis-pōno, pŏsŭi, pŏsĭtum (contr. dispostum, Lucr. 1, 52; 2, 644), 3
* V. a., to place here and there, to set in different places, to distribute regularly, to dispose, arrange (cf. dispenso, II.—freq. and class.).
* Lit.
* In gen., to set in order, arrange, dispose: libros confusos antea,Cic. Att. 4, 8, a; cf.: Homeri libros,id. de Or. 3, 34, 137: oculos (harundinum),Cato R. R. 47; cf. brassicam,Col. 11, 3, 27: arbores,Plin. 17, 11, 15, § 78: quidque suo loco,Col. 12, 2, 3; cf.: pennas in ordine,Ov. A. A. 2, 45; for which: disjecta membra in ordinem,Sen. Hippol. 1257: obliquos ordines in quincuncem,Caes. B. G. 7, 73, 5: aciem,Tac. H. 2, 41; Plin. 9, 8, 9, § 31: male capillos,Ov. Am. 1, 14, 35; cf. comas,id. Pont. 3, 3, 16; Mart. 12, 83: tectos enses per herbam,Verg. A. 3, 237: ceras per atria,Ov. F. 1, 591; for which: expressi cera voltus singulis disponebantur armariis,Plin. 35, 2, 2, § 6: tabernas deversorias per litora et ripas,Suet. Ner. 27: cubicula plurifariam,id. Tib. 43 et saep.—Poet.: (Prometheus) corpora disponens, etc., qs. arranging the parts, limbs,i. e. fashioning, forming,Prop. 3, 5, 9 (4, 4, 9 M.): moenia versu,i. e. to describe,id. 4 (5), 1, 57; cf. Ov. Am. 3, 7, 64.
* Trop.: verba ita disponunt ut pictores varietatem colorum, paria paribus referunt,Cic. Or. 19 fin.; so of the regular arrangement of the parts of a discourse,id. de Or. 2, 42, 179; 3, 25, 96 al.; Quint. 2, 12, 10; 3, 3, 10 et saep.; cf. also Tac. Or. 3: fac ut plane iis omnibus, quos devinctos tenes, descriptum ac dispositum suum cuique munus sit,Q. Cic. Pet. Cons. 5 fin.; cf. ministeria principatus in equites Romanos,Tac. H. 1, 58: imperii curas,id. A. 16, 8: consilia in omnem fortunam ita disposita habebat (the fig. being borrowed from milit. lang.),Liv. 42, 29: in disponendo die,in arranging the business of the day,Suet. Tib. 11: diem,Sen. Cons. ad Polyb. 25 fin.; Tac. G. 30; Plin. Ep. 9, 36; cf. otium,id. ib. 4, 23: tempus otiosum,Mart. 5, 20: opus et requiem pariter,Pers. 5, 43 et saep.
* In post-class. lang., with acc. and inf. or rel. clause, like the Gr. διατάσσω, to settle, determine: non alienum erit disponi, apud quem puer interim educetur,Dig. 43, 30, 3, § 4: Thebani apparere paucos disposuerunt,Front. Strat. 3, 2, 10, 2 (dub.): excursatores quingentos sensim praeire disposuit,Amm. 24, 1; 24, 6, 4.—With ut, Dig. 10, 3, 18.—Hence, dispŏsĭtus, a, um, P. a., regularly distributed; hence properly ordered, arranged (very rare): studia ad honorem disposita,Cic. Mur. 14: vita hominum,Plin. Ep. 3, 1, 2; also transf.: vir dispositus,an orderly speaker,id. ib. 2, 11, 17.—As subst.: lumina ex disposito relucentia,Sen. de Prov. 1, 2.—Comp.: dispositius, Sen. Q. N. praef. fin.; cf. Lact. Ira D. 10 med.—Sup. Boëth. Cons. Phil. 4, pros. 2.—Adv.: dispŏsĭte, orderly, methodically: accusare istum,Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 40, § 87: dicere,Quint. 10, 7, 12: exponere,Vitr. 7 praef. § 18: mundus effectus est (with ordinate),Lact. 3, 17.— Sup.: aedificare,Sid. Ep. 5, 11.

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