concertātĭo (noun F) : concerto
* A strife of words, a disputation, dispute, controversy (several times in Cic.; elsewhere rare): contentiones concertationesque in disputando pertinaces,Cic. Fin. 1, 8, 27; cf.: concertationum plenae disputationes,id. de Or. 1, 43, 194: concertationis studium,id. Div. 1, 30, 62: imitatur disputandi prudentiam concertatio captatioque verborum, a love of disputation (the ἐριστική of the sophists), id. Part. Or. 23, 81: jejuna verborum,id. de Or. 2, 16, 68: magistratuum,id. Sest. 36, 77: sententiarum circa aegros (of the physicians at the sick-bed),Plin. 29, 1, 5, § 11; cf. id. 20, 18, 76, § 200.

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