Collectio, Verb. Cic.A collection: a gathering. Collectio. Plin. An impostume in the body. Collectio, pro Illatione in argumentis. Sen. A conclusion.Dispersa collectio.Cic.Collecta. collectæ. Varro. A gathering. Collecta. Svmbolum. Cic.A shot or reckening.Collectam conuiuis cxigere.Cic.To aske the shot.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
collectĭo (conl-), ōnis, f. [id.]. I. Abstr., a collecting together.A. Prop.: membrorum (Absyrti), Cic. Imp. Pomp. 9, 22: spiritūs, Petr. 98: fructuum, Dig. 9, 2, 27, 25: terrae, Paul. ex Fest. p. 96, 17 Müll.— B.Trop., the collecting, acquiring: amicorum (opp. detractio), Sen. Ep. 74, 25.—2. Esp. a. In rhet. lang., a summing up of things said, a short repetition, recapitulation, summary, a)nakefalai/wsis, Cic. Brut. 88, 302; Auct. Her. 1, 6, 10; Quint. 4, 4, 2.—b. In post-Aug. philos. lang., argumentation, reasoning, a syllogism, a conclusion, inference, Sen. Ep. 45, 7; 85, 2; Quint. 9, 2, 103; Plin. 2, 23, 21, 85; Arn. 1, 35.—II. Concr. in medic. lang., a swelling, tumor, abscess, Plin. 22, 25, 58, 122; 24, 4, 7, 13; 26, 12, 79, 127; 27, 12, 87, 110 et saep.; Sen. Ep. 68, 7; Scrib. Comp. 206.