rĕgĭo (noun F) : rego
* A direction, line (rare but class.).
* Lit.: nullā regione viaï Declinare,Lucr. 2, 249; cf.: notā excedo regione viarum,Verg. A. 2, 737: de rectā regione deflecto,Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 68, § 176: haec eadem est nostrae rationis regio et via,id. ib. 2, 5, 70, § 181; cf.: oppidi murus ab planitie rectā regione, si nullus anfractus intercederet, MCC. passus aberat,Caes. B. G. 7, 46; and: non rectā regione iter instituit, sed ad laevam flexit,Liv. 21, 31: declinamus item motus nec tempore certo, nec regione loci certā,nor in a specified direction,Lucr. 2, 260; cf. id. 2, 293; Curt. 8, 9, 2: (Hercynia silva) rectā fluminis Danubii regione pertinet,Caes. B. G. 6, 25; 7, 46; Curt 7, 7, 4: ubi primos superare regionem castrorum animum adverterunt,the line,Caes. B. C. 1, 69: eam esse naturam et religionem provinciae tuae, ut, etc.,i. e. the situation,Cic. Fam. 1, 7, 6: traicere amnem in regionem insulae,Curt. 8, 13, 23.
* E regione, adverbially.
* Transf.
* In the opposite direction, over against, exactly opposite; constr. with gen., dat., or absol.
* With gen.: (luna) cum est e regione solis,Cic. N. D. 2, 40, 103: erat e regione oppidi collis,Caes. B. G. 7, 36: castris positis e regione unius eorum pontium, quos, etc.,id. ib. 7, 35: praesidio e regione castrorum relicto,id. ib. 7, 61 fin.: rates duplices e regione molis collocabat,id. B. C. 1, 25: e regione turris,id. B. G. 7, 25.
* Trop., on the other hand, on the contrary (late Lat.; syn.: e contra): Arabes camelorum lacte vivunt, e regione septentrionales, etc.,Hier. adv. Jovin. 2, 7.
* Absol.: acie e regione instructā,Nep. Milt. 5, 3.— *
* The line which bounds the sight, the visual line, boundary-line, boundary (cf: limes, finis).
* Primarily in the lang. of augury: intra eas regiones, quā oculi conspiciant,Varr. L. L. 7, § 9 Müll.: nempe eo (sc. lituo) Romulus regiones direxit tum, cum urbem condidit ... ab Attio Navio per lituum regionum facta descriptio,Cic. Div. 1, 17, 31: lituus, quo regiones vincere terminavit,id. N. D. 2, 3, 9: regionibus ratis,id. Leg. 2, 8, 21.
* A portion (of the earth or heavens) of indefinite extent; a tract, territory, region (cf.: tractus, plaga).
* Lit.: anteponatur omnibus Pompeius, cujus res gestae atque virtutes iisdem quibus solis cursus regionibus ac terminis continentur,Cic. Cat. 4, 10, 21; cf.: caeli regionibus terminare,id. ib. 3, 11, 26: orbis terrae regiones,id. Arch. 10, 23. — Rare in sing.: quae regione orbem terrarum definiunt,Cic. Balb. 28, 64.
* A quarter, region of the heavens or the earth (mostly poet.): (Nilus) exoriens penitus mediā ab regione diei,Lucr. 6, 723; so id. 6, 732: etiam regio (lunae mutatur), quae tum est aquilonaris, tum australis,Cic. N. D. 2, 19, 50: deinde subter mediam regionem sol obtinet,id. Rep. 6, 17, 17: atque eadem regio Vesper et Ortus erunt,Ov. Ib. 38; cf. vespertina,Hor. S. 1, 4, 30; Vitr 4, 5, 1: caeli in regione serenā,Verg. A. 8, 528: regione occidentis, Liv 33, 17; Just. 18, 3, 10.
* Lit.
* In gen.: in hac regione,Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 42: locum delegit in regione pestilenti salubrem,Cic. Rep. 2, 6, 11: agri fertilissima regio,Caes. B. G. 7, 13 fin.: quā te regione reliqui?Verg. A. 9, 390: regione portae Esquilinae,in the region, neighborhood,Liv. 3, 66 fin. Drak.; 25, 25; 30; 33, 17; cf. Oud. de Auct. B. Alex. 30, 7; for which: e regione castrorum,in the vicinity of the camp,Liv. 10, 43 Drak.: eā regione quā Sergius erat,id. 5, 8: tam vasta,Just. 13, 7, 3: acclivis,Col. 3, 13, 8: deserta siti regio,Verg. A. 4, 42. — Plur.: hi loci sunt atque hae regiones, quae mihi ab ero sunt demonstratae,Plaut. Ps. 2, 2, 1: cur in his ego te conspicor regionibus?Ter. Eun. 5, 8, 32: qui innumerabiles mundos infinitasque regiones mente peragravisset,Cic. Fin. 2, 31, 102: terrae maximae regiones inhabitabiles,id. N. D. 1, 10, 24 et saep.
* Trop., a province, department, sphere: dum in regionem astutiarum mearum te induco, ut scias Juxta mecum mea consilia,Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 78; 3, 3, 13: idque (consilium) situm mediā regione in pectoris haeret,Lucr. 3, 140: ceterae fere artes se ipsae per se tuentur singulae; benedicere autem non habet definitam aliquam regionem, cujus terminis saepta teneatur,has no determinate province,Cic. de Or. 2, 2, 5: eadem est nostrae rationis regio et via,compass and course,Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 70, § 181.
* The country, the field (late Lat.): herba regionis,Vulg. Gen. 2, 5: ligna,id. Ezech. 17, 24; id. Joel, 1, 19: bestiae,id. Ezech. 31, 13.
* A principal division of the city of Rome, and of the territory around Rome, a quarter, ward, district, circle (of these, under Servius Tullius, there were in the city four, and in the Roman territory twenty-six; under Augustus, there were fourteen in the city), Laelius Felix ap. Gell. 15, 27, 4; Plin. 3, 5, 9, § 66; Varr. ap. Non. 43, 10; Suet. Aug. 30; Tac. A. 14, 12; 15, 40; Inscr. Orell. 4 sq. et saep.; cf. Niebuhr, Gesch. 1, p. 458 sq.: regio quaedam urbis aeternae,Amm. 22, 9, 3; 16, 10, 15.— Of other cities,Inscr. Orell. 6, 768.—Hence, A REGIONIBVS, a captain of a quarter, Inscr. Murat. 894, 8; 895, 4 and 5.
* Of the provinces into which Italy was divided by Augustus, a province, division: descriptionem ab eo (Augusto) factum Italiae totius in regiones undecim,Plin. 3, 5, 6, § 46; 3, 11, 16, § 99; 3, 12, 17, § 106 al.

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