set apart
set apart:
1. sēpōno, 3 (set aside, reserve): I thought that it had been s. apart for that shrine, id ego ad illud fanum sepositum putabam, Cic. Att. 15, 15, ad fin.: he picked out some of the chiefs, and s. them apart for the triumphal procession, nonnullos ex principibus legit ac seposuit ad pompam, Suet. Cal. 47, init. Fig.: I have s. apart (a certain task) for my old age, senectuti seposui, Tac. H. 1, 1, fin.
2. sēcerno, crēvi, crētum, 3 (to separate: put in a distinct class): to s. apart no portion of the booty for the public treasury, nihil praedae in publicum s., Liv. 7, 16, init.: Jupiter hath s. apart these shores for the pious race, Jupiter illa piae secrevit litora genti, Hor. Epod. 16, 63. Fig.: these men I willingly except and s. apart (in my mind), hosce ego homines excipio et secerno libenter, Cic. Cat. 4, 7, 15.
1. sēpōno, 3 (set aside, reserve): I thought that it had been s. apart for that shrine, id ego ad illud fanum sepositum putabam, Cic. Att. 15, 15, ad fin.: he picked out some of the chiefs, and s. them apart for the triumphal procession, nonnullos ex principibus legit ac seposuit ad pompam, Suet. Cal. 47, init. Fig.: I have s. apart (a certain task) for my old age, senectuti seposui, Tac. H. 1, 1, fin.
2. sēcerno, crēvi, crētum, 3 (to separate: put in a distinct class): to s. apart no portion of the booty for the public treasury, nihil praedae in publicum s., Liv. 7, 16, init.: Jupiter hath s. apart these shores for the pious race, Jupiter illa piae secrevit litora genti, Hor. Epod. 16, 63. Fig.: these men I willingly except and s. apart (in my mind), hosce ego homines excipio et secerno libenter, Cic. Cat. 4, 7, 15.