The situation of the place. Positio cœli. Colum. The state of the aire. Positio vrbis. Cic. Positio campestris. Colum. A situation in a plaine champion countrey. Positionis arbustinæ exemplo. Colum. Positio apud Oratores. Quin. The fal of a clause in a sentence. Among grãmarians the naturall primitiue word, whereof other are deriued & deduced, also a termination. Quæ fœmina positione mares, aut neutrali fœminas significant. Quin. Which vnder the feminine termination bee the masculine gender, or in the neutrall termination bee the feminine gender.

I. Lit.: calicis positio, Front. Aquaed. 36: surculi, Col. 3, 17: linearum, id. 3, 3 fin.: brassicae, id. 11, 3, 24.—

B. Transf., a position of the body or of places, a posture, situation: corporis nostri positio, Sen. Q. N. 1, 16, 7: caeli locique, Col. 3, 4, 1: loci, Quint. 3, 7, 26: pro situ et positione locorum, id. 3, 21, 9: Italiae procurrentis, Plin. 37, 13, 77, 201: uniuscujusque stellarum forma et positio, Gell. 14, 1.—

II. Trop.

A. A placing, use of a word: metwnumi/a est nominis pro nomine positio, Quint. 8, 6, 23; 1, 5, 51.—

2. In partic., affirmation: paupertas non per positionem sed per detractionem dicitur, Sen. Ep. 87, 39.—

B. Transf.

1. In rhet., a proposition, theme, subject, argument, Quint. 2, 10, 15; 7, 4, 40.—

2. In gram., an ending, termination, Quint. 1, 5, 60; so id. 1, 5, 65; 1, 6, 10; 12; 22.—

3. In prosody.

a. A downward beat, in marking time: a sublatione ad positionem, Quint. 9, 4, 48; so id. 9, 4, 55; Mart. Cap. 9, 981; so of the voice (opp. elevatio), Isid. 1, 16, 21.—

b. Positio syllabae, the place of a short vowel before two consonants, by which the syllable becomes long, position, Quint. 1, 5, 28; 9, 4, 86; Diom. p. 423 P. et saep.—

4. A state of mind, mood: in quācumque positione mentis sim, Sen. Ep. 64, 3.—

5. Positiones, circumstances of a thing, Quint. 7, 4, 40.