actio, de aliqua re; colloquium (conference): Often by circumlocution with the verb. To enter into a negotiation respecting anything, postulare conditiones de aliqua re: to carry on a negotiation, conditiones ferre et audire; conditiones agitare, tractare, agere cum aliquo: to break off a negotiation for peace, infecta pace dimittere legatos; dimittere pacis internuncios; conditiones de pace ineunda propositas dirimere, abrumpere: during these negotiations, dum haec aguntur (Liv.): to settle by negotiation, conditionibus disceptare aliquid; per colloquium aliquid componere.