CONTROVERSY Copy link • CONTROVERSYcontroversia (the point about which a contest takes place, the parties placing themselves in array on different sides): disceptatio (aw amicable discussion, to arrive at what is true or right): to decide or put an end to a controversy, controversiam tollere, sedare, dirimere, distrahere, also componere (Caes.): to judge controversies, controversias dijudicare: to leave a controversy undecided, aliquid in controversia relinquere: a controversy arises, oritur, exsistit, nascitur controversia: beyond all controversy, sine (ulla) controversia: to carry on the controversy till night, controversiam usque ad noctem ducere: to have a controversy with anybody, habere controversiam cum aliquo (de aliqua re): the whole controversy turns on this, de hac re omnis est controversia: I have no controversy with him, mihi cum eo controversiae nihil est: to keep a controversy alive, controversiam alere [Caes., but of a dispute). [OBSERVE, controversari inter vos de aliqua re, to have a controversy about a matter, occurs once in Cic., Fragm.; but that is authority enough.] Subject of controversy, quaestio: res controversa: causa (the subject proposed, etc.), often circumlocution, quod cadit in controversiam. The controversy is this, agitur de, etc.: to become a subject of controversy, in controversiam venire: to be a subject of controversy, in controversia esse or versari: to make anything a subject of controversy, rem in (dicendi) controversiam vocare; in controversiam adducere or (Caes.) deducere.