CONTENTION Copy link • CONTENTIONconcertatio (the reciprocal exertions of two persons to conquer each other in argument): certatio (dispute in general, as act; also before a court): certamen (contest with words, as event): contentio (carried on violently): disceptatio (a discussion for the purpose of arriving, e.g., at the real truth ofanything; also before a court): pugna (between litterati in matters of opinion, as Cic., De Divin., 2, 51, near the beginning: hic quanta pugna est doctissimorum hominum): controversia (the dispute, in as far as each believes himself in the right; also before a court; and, in general, a litterary dispute): altercatio (any violent discussion, but especially a dispute arising from difference of opinion, and which, at times, is carried on from mere obstinacy, and mostly with heat): jurgium (dispute accompanied with abusive, insulting words): rixa (violent dispute, on trifles especially; attended by menaces, and even acts of violence): lis (in standard prose only of a suit before a court). To cause contention, controversiam facere (as well of the thing as of the person that causes it): causam jurgii inferre (to get up a quarrel; of the author). [Vid :, also, DISPUTE, QUARREL.] Emulation, zeal, aemulatio: studium: certamen: an honorable contention, honesta certatio: to enter into a contention with anybody, in certamen cum aliquo descendere. [Vid: ZEAL.] Contentiousness, Vid.