Division, as I have already stated,1 means the
division of a group of things into its component
parts, partition is the separation of an individual
whole into its elements, order the correct disposition
[p. 7]
of things in such a way that what follows coheres
with what precedes, while arrangement is the distribution of things and parts to the places which it is
expedient that they should occupy.
1 v. x. 63.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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