dealing Copy link Outline I. TrafficII. Intercourse, relation • dealing: I. Traffic: nĕgōtiātio, mercātūra, commercium: v. trade. II. Intercourse, relation: esp. in pl.; and in phr. to have d.s with: Phr.: (husbandmen) have d.s with the earth, rationem habent cum terra, Cic.: I have no d.s with you, nil mihi tecum est commercii (based on Pl.) the Jews have no d.s with the Samaritans, non coutuntur Judaei Samaritanis, Vulg. John iv. 9: there can be no d.s between those, commune nihil potest esse apud eos, etc., Cic.: v. connexion, intercourse: and comp. to deal (II.)
DEALING Copy link • DEALINGIntercourse, commercium (PROP. for trade, then also of connection generally): negotia, plur. (business): conversatio (familiar intercourse in daily life): usus (intercourse with a person from which one derives benefit): consuetudo (habits of intercourse or intimacy): convictus (as far as one, more or less, lives with another). To have dealings with anybody, commercium habere cum aliquo; commercio alicujus frui; est mihi commercium or consuetudo cum aliquo: to break off all dealings with anybody, consuetudinem intermittere: to order one’s slaves to have no dealings with strangers, servis vetare quidquam rei cum alienis hominibus esse: to have no dealings with, commercium cum aliquo non est; in anything, alicujus rei; cum aliquo or aliqua re commerci nihil est (Plaut.). Treatment, tractatio (e.g., of questions, affairs, etc., rerum, quaestionum): *rei tractandae modus: (agendi) ratio: agendi modus. Harsh dealing, severitas (opposed to indulgentia). Gentle dealing, lenitas. To be harsh in one’s dealings with anybody, severitatem adhibere alicui, or in aliquem: to be too indulgent in one’s dealings with anybody, aliquem nimia indulgentia tractare. Behavior; plain or upright dealing, fides: integritas et fides: probitas: Double-dealing, faliacia: doli atque lallaciae: To be guilty of double-dealing in anything, fallaciam in re facere; toward anybody, fraudem alicui facere: dolum alicui struere, nectere, confingere: there is some double-dealing, aliquid doli subest: there is no double-dealing, nihil doli subest. At cards, *paginarum dispertitio: careful dealing, *paginarum studiosa dispertitio (so as to avoid a misdeal).