To dispose or set in order: to sort: to set in apt place: to diuide: to separ ate: to distribute. To interpret or make plaine: to resolue or seuer that was gathered togither: to digest: to cary hither and thither. Digeri & Coire, contraria. Cels. To be resolued, as a humour is, that was before gathered in the body. Artus digerere. Lucan. Id est, dissipare. Digerere. Virg. To dispose and set in order: to place. Digerere in pastillos. Pli. To diuide or make into little ro pilles or balles. In partes. Plin. To diuide into partes. Digerere acta siue tempora. Liu. To dispose actes and set thÊ in order according to the times. Argumenta in digitos. Quintil. To note or pointe hys arguments on his fingers endes Crines. Col. To set the haire in order. Ex copia digerere in genus quodque. Cice. To distribute, or sort store of arguments into their sundry kindes. Digerendi in suos dies syderum exortus & occasus. Plini. Digerere ius ciuile in genera. Cic. To distinct the lawe into certaine kindes or partes. Pœnam in omnes Ouid. When al be punished for one. Rempub. Cic. To dispose and set in good order. Tabulas. Cicer. To set registers or bookes of accounte in due order. Tempora. Ouid. To dispose times in order. Digerere. Virg. To interpret. Ita digerit omnia Calchas. Vir. Doth so declare and appoint al the matter. Digerere. Cels. To digest. Digerere cibum. Quint. To digest meate. Digeruntur cibus & potio in omnes membrorum partes. Cel. Meat & drink be digested or distributed into al parts. Digerunt cibum dentes lati & acuti. Pli. Breake or diuide % meate. Digerere mandata alicuius, per translationem. Cice. To doe in order the things that one is commaunded. Digerere, pro Resoluere. Cels. To resolue: to dissypate and consume that is gathered. Digerere abscedentia. Cels. To resolue Impostumes gathered. Digerere. Cels. To lense the belly. vt, Si corpus astrictum est, digerendum esse. Cels. Digerere hominem. Cels. To extenuate a man, or consume & make seeble his body. Humorem. Cels. To resolue and consume an humour. Materiam. Cels. Sudorem. Cels. To bring out or prouoke sweat. Sudore digeri. Cels. To be wasted or ertenuated with sweat.

I. Lit.

A. Ingen. (so mostly post-Aug.): (insulae) interdum discordantibus ventis digeruntur (opp. junctae copulataeque), Plin. Ep. 8, 20, 6; cf. nubes (opp. congregare), Sen. Q. N. 7, 22: nimbos, Plin. 31, 4, 30, 53; Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 9: digesti colores, Ov. F. 5, 213: stercoris pars in prata digerenda, Col. 11, 2, 18: radix digesta, Plin. 24, 17, 102, 161: inque canes totidem trunco digestus ab uno Cerberus, divided, separated, Ov. H. 9, 93; cf.: Nilus septem in cornua, id. M. 9, 774 (for which, septem discretus in ostia Nilus, id. ib. 5, 324): Crete centum per urbes, id. H. 10, 67: populus Romanus in classes (coupled with distributus), Flor. 1, 6, 4 et saep.; cf. Ov. F. 6, 83.—Poet.: (augur Thestorides) novem volucres in belli digerit annos, i. e. explains, interprets, Ov. M. 12, 21 (cf. omina, Verg. A. 2, 182).—

B. In partic.

1. (Post-Aug.): cibum, to cut up, divide: (dentes) qui digerunt cibum, Plin. 11, 37, 61, 160; and still more freq., like the class. concoquere, to digest, Sen. Controv. 1 prooem.; Cels. 3, 4; 4, 7; Quint. 10, 1, 19 al.—

2. In medic. lang., to dissolve, dissipate morbid matter, Cels. 5, 18 (twice); 1, 9 fin.; 2, 17 al.; Plin. 26, 7, 25, 41 al.— Very freq. and class.,

3. With the accessory notion of arrangement, to distribute, arrange, dispose, set in order: quas (accepti tabulas) diligentissime legi et digessi, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 23; cf. id. Rosc. Com. 3, 9: capillos, Ov. Am. 1, 7, 11: crines, Col. poet. 10, 165; cf.: crines ordine, Mart. 3, 63: asparagum, to plant in regular rows, Cato R. R. 161, 3; Plin. 19, 8, 42, 149; cf. Verg. G. 2, 54 and 267: bibliothecam, to arrange, Suet. Caes. 44: carmina in numerum, Verg. A. 3, 446 (ordinat, disponit, Serv.).

II. Trop.

A. In gen., to distribute (rare and not ante-Aug.): quam meruit solus poenam digessit in omnes, Ov. M. 14, 469; cf.: mala per annos longos, id. Pont. 1, 4, 9: tempora, id. F. 1, 27; cf.: annum in totidem species, Tac. G. 26 et saep.—Freq. and class.,

B. In partic., to arrange, set in order, distribute: mandata, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 14, 3: quaestiones, Quint. 11, 2, 37; cf. id. 10, 4, 1 Spald. N. cr.: reliquos usus ejus suo loco, to relate in order, Plin. 29, 2, 10, 37 et saep.: omina, interprets, Verg. A. 2, 182 (cf. above, no. I. A. fin.): post descripte et electe in genus quodque causae, quid cuique conveniat, ex hac copia digeremus, Cic. Inv. 1, 30, 49; cf. id. de Or. 1, 41, 186: omne jus civile in genera, id. ib. 1, 42, 190: commentarios in libros, Quint. 10, 7, 30: res in ordinem, id. ib. 7 prooem. 1: argumenta in digitos, id. 11, 3, 114: commentarium per genera usus sui, Plin. 29, 1, 8, 15 et saep.—With a relat. clause: nec quid quoque anno actum sit, in tanta vetustate non modo rerum sed etiam auctorum digerere possis, Liv. 2, 21, 4: senium, digest, i. e. endure, Val. Fl. 8, 92 (cf. gh=ras e(/yein, Pind. Olym. 1, 133).—

C. To consider maturely (late Lat.): consilium, Amm. 14, 6, 14; 15, 4, 1.—

D. To exercise (for health): si satis valet, gestando aegrum, digerere; si parum, intra domum tamen dimovere, Cels. 4, 7, 4: ne imbecillum hominem nimis digerant, id. 2, 15 med. al.—Hence, dīgestus, a, um, P. a.

A. (Acc. to I. B. 1.) That has a good digestion: purissimus et digestissimus, Marc. Empir. c. 22 med.—

B. (Acc. to no. II. B.) Subst.: dīgesta, ōrum, n., a name given to a collection of writings distributed under certain heads, Gell. 6, 5 init.; esp. of Justinian's code of laws, the Pandects, Digests; cf. Just. Cod. 1, 17, 3, 1.—Also to the Bible, Tert. adv. Marc. 4, 3.—Sing.: digestum Lucae, the Gospel of Luke, id. ib. 4, 5.