sectĭo (noun F) : id.
* A cutting, cutting off, cutting up.
* In gen. (so only post - Aug.): sectio et partitio corporis (humani),Gell. 20, 1, 39; so, corporum,Vitr. 2, 2: cyma a primā sectione praestat,Plin. 19, 8, 41, § 137.
* In partic. *
* A cutting of diseased parts of the body: (mandragoras) bibitur ante sectiones punctionesque, ne sentiantur,Plin. 25, 13, 94, § 150.
* A castration, App. M. 7, p. 199, 31.
* Publicists' t. t., a dividing, parcelling out, or distribution by auction of captured or confiscated goods (the prevailing and class. signif.; syn.: auctio, licitatio): cujus praedae sectio non venierit,Cic. Inv. 1, 45, 85: sectionem ejus oppidi universam Caesar vendidit, * Caes. B. G. 2, 33; Cic. Fragm. ap. Gell. 13, 24, 6; id. Phil. 2, 26, 64; 2, 29, 71; Varr. R. R. 2, 10, 4; Tac. H. 1, 90; id. A. 13, 23; Suet. Vit. 2.
* Hence, of the confiscation of property by tax-gatherers: sectiones publicanorum,Just. 38, 7, 8.
* Geometrical t. t., division, section: ut de ratione dividendi, de sectione in infinitum, etc.,Quint. 1, 10, 49.