• CONVERSE

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• s. Conversation, Vid:
• In Logic (the predicate becoming the subject, and the subject the predicate), by circumlocution: in some propositions the converse is also true, quaedam et retrorsum idem valent (Quint., who gives as the example, vivit homo, qui spirat; and spirat, qui vivit; 5, 9, 6): of some propositions the converse is not true, quaedam in contrarium non recurrunt (Quint. ib., his example is, movetur, qui ingreditur, which can not be converted to; qui movetur, ingreditur).

2. v. loqui cum aliquo (general term = to speak): sermocinare or sermonem conferre cum aliquo (to have a discourse): cum aliquo colloqui (of a tête-à-tête, especially to settle some matter): confabulari or sermones familiares conferre cum aliquo (of familiar or intimate conversation): to converse very agreeably with anybody, jucundissime loqui cum aliquo: to converse about anything, habere sermones de aliqua re; disputare de aliqua re (alleging reasons for and against anything): here they conversed on litterary, scientific subjects, *erant ibi sermones de litteris or de artium studiis atque doctrina: Tiberius hardly ever conversed even with, etc., nullus Tiberio aut rarissimus etiam cum (proximis) sermo (Suet., Tib., 68). To converse together, colloqui inter se or inter nos, vos, etc., [ ☞ colloqui secum = to converse with one’s self, to think over anything with one’s self, etc.] Vid: also, “to have or hold a conversation,” under CONVERSATION.