1. contrarius (PROP., that is or lies over against; figuratively, exactly opposed, contradictory): adversus (PROP., turned to the spectator, lying over against him figuratively, in rhetoric, that is opposed in the same kind, that denotes the contrary; as sapientia and stultitia, according to Cic., Top., 11, 47; but also general term for contrarius; Vid: Cic., Or., 19, 56; 39, 135: Gell., 16, 8): oppositus (set or placed over against; of the action, not of the thing): disjunctus (logically opposed, disjunctive, Cic., Acad., 2, 30, 97): disparatus (contradictory; Vid: Cic., Invent., 1, 28, 42). Opposite to each other, contrarii inter se: to be of an opposite opinion, dissentire, dissidere ab aliquo and inter se.
2. s. contrarium (the contrary): “The opposite of anything,” must be expressed by contrarius alicujus or alicui rei; e.g., the opposite of this virtue is moral depravity, hujus virtutis contraria est vitiositas (Cic., Tusc., 4, 15, 34): The vices as opposite to the virtues, vitia, quae sunt virtutum contraria (Cic., Fin., 2, 24, 67): the manners of the town as opposite to the manners of the country, urbanitas, cui contraria est rusticitas (Quint., 6, 3, 17): opposites, contraria; adversa; or, more fully, contraria contrariis opposita (Cic.). ☞ Opposita is very late; Vid: Ruhnken ad Muret., t. 3, p. 489. Avoid, also, antithesis in this sense; in the old grammarians, it denoted the substitution of one letter for another; Vid: Freund’s Lex., s. v.