• DEAL

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• A considerable quantity; sometimes by copia, vis, multitudo (e.g., copia argenti; infinita vis marmoris; copia rugum): but mostly by the neuter adjectives of quantity: a great deal of anything, multum; plurimum and (less strong) aliquantum (= a considerable deal; e.g., argenti): a deal of trouble, plurimum laboris et operae: a great deal (= by a great deal), multo, longe; sometimes multis partibus.
• Deal at cards, *paginarum partitio or distributio: It is your deal, *tuum est paginas dispertire.
• Fir wood, lignum abiegnum: abies.

2. TR., dividere; dispenire; distribuere; dispensare (to deal out in shares): largiri: dilargiri; elargiri (to deal out or spend with liberality: elargiri, Persius, 3, 70): to deal out corn, frumentum metiri; meat, viscerationem dare; among the soldiers, militibus: the tablets used in voting, tabellas diribere: to deal anybody hard words, verbis castigare aliquem; blows, pugnos obserere alicui (comical): to deal cards, *paginas dispertire, *chartas or scidas distribuere.

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• INTR.,
• Behave (absolutely or towards a person; followed by “with” or “by’): tractare aliquem (to treat him; e.g., liberaliter, injuriosius, honorificentius, benignius): habere aliquem (e.g., bene, male, liberaliter): agere: aliquem esse in aliquem (e.g., who did not deal with you quite fairly, qui in te injustior fuit); se praebere erga or in aliquem: to deal honorably in anything, in aliqua re bene, or optima fide versari, or probe agere: to deal liberally with anybody, liberaliter aliquem habere: to deal harshly with anybody, aspere or male aliquem tractare; aliquo deuti (Nep., Eum., 11, 3): to deal indulgently with anybody, indulgentia or indulgenter tractare aliquem: indulgere alicui (Vid: Herz., Caes., B.G., 1, 40): to deal with anybody exactly as with everybody else, aliquem eodem loco habere, quo alium: to deal with anybody as with an enemy, (in) hostium numero habere; pro hoste habere or ducere: he dealt kindly with me, benigne se mini praebuit; benignum eum expertus sum; benigne me excepit, or mecum egit. Sometimes “to deal with” = “to do with,” facere alicui, aliquo, or (seldom) de aliquo. How would you deal with this fellow? quid huic homini facias?
• Manage a person, tractare aliquem: alicujus animum flectere: ex voluntate uti aliquo (to do what one pleases with him): one who knows how to deal with anybody, artifex alicujus or alicujus animum tractandi: easy to deal with, tractabilis (e.g., homo; ingenium): a temper that is easy to deal with, mite ac tractabile ingenium.
• Manage or handle (subjects, affairs, etc.), tractare (to handle; e.g., quaestionem, res turbidas): to deal with a subject, tractare rem (general term): dicere de aliqua re (by word of mouth): scribere de aliqua re; scriptura persequi aliquid; disserere, disputare de aliqua re: to deal briefly with anything, paucis absolvere aliquid: to deal awkwardly with anything, rem perperam incipere or aggredi: how would he deal with this conclusion? quid faceret huic conclusioni? (Cic.)
• To deal in, or drive a trade in, anything, rem gerere; rem gerere et lucrum facere (if profitably); mercaturam (mercaturas, if in several things) facere (as a merchant, especially a wholesale dealer): negotiari; vendere, or venditare; commercium alicujus rei facere (e.g., thuris, Plin.): the Roman merchants deal with the Gauls, mercatores Romani ad Gallos commeant (that is, go with their merchandise backwards and forwards, Caes., B.G., i., 1).