• DISPUTE

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• v. Argue, on opposite sides, verbis contendere: concertare (to contend with words, in which sense disputare is never found): disputare: disserere (to discuss philosophically): to dispute about any question, to dispute a thing, aliquid in controversiam vocare or adducere: to dispute for and against, de re in contrarias partes or in utramque partem disputare; ambigere (to feel, express, etc., uncertainty; in Cic. mostly impersonal or passive: anything is disputed, aliquid ambigitur; also with dependent interrogative clause, utrum, quid, etc.): there is nothing that may not be disputed, omnis res habet naturam ambigendi (Cic., De Or., 3, 29).
• Quarrel, Vid.

2. s. altercatio (where the disputants each strive to have the last word; mostly implying excessive heat): jurgium (when they will not listen to reason, but give vent to their ill humor by harsh words): rixa (a broil or fray, when things look, at least, as if it would come to blows): contentio (when the contenders would maintain the right against all opponents, and effect its purpose, whatever it may be, by the strenuous exertion of all their faculties): controversia (the simple notion of disputing against one another): disceptatio (when men commence a discussion in order to arrive at the truth, or discover what is right). To begin a dispute, altercari incipere (eum aliquo); causam jurgii inferre (to begin a quarrel): to have a dispute with anybody, altercari cum aliquo (about anything, de aliqua re); jurgio certare cum aliquo (Velleius, 2, 33, 2): a dispute arises between me and anybody about anything, oritur mihi de aliqua re altercatio cum aliquo: this was the origin of the dispute, hinc jurgium, inde jurgium fuit.