Lectio, ônis, f. g. Verbale. Reading: a lesson: choyse: a gathering. vt Lectio literarum. Cic.Reading of letters.Tædium lectionis. Quint. Virilis lectio, & cum suauitate quadam grauis. Quint. Accelerare lectionem. Quint. Continuare lectionem. Quint. Formare lectione. Quint. To frame and fashion in handsome reading. Lectio.Liu.Choyse. vt, Et eam lectionem nemo raram habuit. Liu. Lectio lapidum. Colum. Sathering of stoues.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
lectĭo, ōnis, f. [lego]. I.A gathering, collecting. A. In gen. (post-Aug. and rare): lectio lapidum, Col. 2, 2, 12: florum, Arn. 5, 173.— B. In partic., a picking out, selecting: judicum, Cic. Phil. 5, 6, 16. —II.A reading, perusal; a reading out, reading aloud. A.Lit.1. In gen.: delectabatur lectione librorum, Cic. Ac. 2, 2, 4: lectio sine ulla delectatione, id. Tusc. 2, 3, 7: versuum, Quint. 1, 8, 2: non cruda, sed multa iteratione mollita et velut confecta, id. 10, 1, 19: continua, id. 11, 2, 34; cf. id. 1, cap. 8 and 10, cap. 1 passim.—2. In partic.: lectio senatūs, a reading off or calling over the names of the senators; this was done by the censor, who at the same time struck the unworthy ones from the list: infamis atque invidiosa senatus lectio, Liv. 9, 29; 27, 11; Suet. Aug. 35.—B.Transf. (abstr. pro contr.), that which is read, reading, text (post-class.): lectio tamen docet, eo tempore solitos, etc., Macr. S. 7, 7, 5: haec sunt quae lectio pontificalis habet, id. ib. 7, 13, 11fin.: juris lectiones,
passages of the laws
, Cod. Just. 6, 61, 5: ubi lectio aliqua falsitate notata est, Isid. 1, 20, 3; so, pervulgati juris, Amm. 30, 4, 18: datā lectione quae non sit intellectu difficilis, Cael. Aur. Tard. 1, 5, 163: quia Moyses prius hoc statuit, sicut lectio manifestat, Mos. et Rom. Leg. Coll. 7, 1 prooem.