I.a position, situation; disposition, order, arrangement (rare; ante-Aug.; “perh. only once in Sallust): positu variare capillos,” Ov. Med. Fac. 19; so id. M. 2, 412: “ossium,” Cels. 8, 1: “siderum,” Tac. A. 6, 21: insulae, Sall. Fragm. ap. Don. ad Ter. Phorm. 1, 2, 47 (p. 247 Gerl.): “regionis,” Tac. A. 4, 5; cf.: “dubium positu Urbs,” Ov. P. 4, 7, 23; and: “Trinacris, a positu nomen adepta loci,” id. F. 4, 420; plur., ways of arranging the hair, id. A. A. 3, 151.
pŏsĭtus , ūs, m. pono,