method Copy link Outline 1. rătio2. vĭa • method: 1. rătio: the old Socratic m., vetus et Socratica r. [contra alterius opinionem disserendi: the elenchus], Cic. Tusc. 1, 4, 8: more precisely, ratio et via, id. 2, 2, extr.; via atque ratio, id. Verr. Act. 1, 16, 48: v. plan. 2. vĭa: a twofold m. of teaching, duplex v. docendi (included generally under ratio dicendi), Cic. Or. 32, 114: esp. with ratio, v. supr. Phr.: to arrange according to m., disponere, Tac. G. 30: Suet. Tib. 11, med.: there was no m. about him, nil erat in eo dispositum, nil ordinatum: v. methodical. (N.B.--Methodos, Aus. Id. 11, 67 = scientific investigation; opp. to empiricism.)