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discepto
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Lewis Short
(verb) : discepto, āvi, ātum, 1, dis and capio.
* Jurid. t. t. (lit., to seize hold of and separate; hence, to stop the dispute), to decide, determine, judge a controversy, = dijudicare (cf.: dissero, disputo; good prose, but rare): res juste sapienterque,Cic. Mil. 9: hanc causam si in foro dicerem eodem audiente et disceptante te,id. Deiot. 2, 6; cf.: ipso exercitu disceptante,Liv. 5, 4: jus dicebat disceptabatque controversias,id. 41, 20; cf.: controversias inter se jure ac judicio, aut ... bello,id. 38, 38 fin.: inter populum Carthaginiensem et regem in re praesenti,id. 34, 62 fin.: inter amicos,Plin. Ep. 7, 15, 2. al.: FETIALES BELLA DISCEPTANTO,i. e. to decide between peace and war,Cic. Leg. 2, 9.—*
* Beyond the judic. sphere: cum Academici eorum controversias disceptarent, Cic. Tusc. 4, 3, 6.—Far more freq.,.
* Transf., of the parties themselves: to debate, dispute, discuss, strive.
* With de: de controversiis jure apud se potius, quam inter se armis disceptare,Caes. B. G. 3, 107 fin.; cf.: de controversiis suis jure potius quam bello,Sall. J. 21 fin.; and see under β: non de aliquo crimine sed de publico jure,Cic. Balb. 28, 64; cf.: de foederum jure verbis,Liv. 21, 19: de jure vectigalium,id. 34, 62: de cunctis negotiis inter se,Sall. J. 11, 2 al.—Ellipt.: damni (i. e. de actione damni) disceptare,Dig. 48, 19, 28, § 12.—Pass. impers.: quanto periculo de jure publico disceptaretur armis,Cic. Fam. 4, 14, 2; 6, 1, 5: quorum de re,id. de Or. 2, 43, 183: de omnibus condicionibus,Caes. B. C. 1, 24 fin.: de agro cum regis legatis,Liv. 34, 62 al.—With ob: ob rem pecuniariam cum aliquo,Tac. A. 6, 5.—With ad: ad aliquem,Liv. 8, 23.
* Absol.: erat non jure, non legibus, non disceptando decertandum,Cic. Planc. 36; so, cum palaestritis aequo jure,Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 15; cf.: jure potius quam bellum gerere,Hirt. B. G. 85 fin.: armis,Tac. A. 2, 65.—Pass. impers.: ut coram imperatore, sicut inter Marcellum Siculosque disceptatum fuerat, disceptaretur,Liv. 26, 33; cf. id. 38, 35.— Abl. absol.: multum invicem disceptato,Tac. A. 15, 14.—*
* With inanimate subjects: in uno proelio omnis fortuna rei publicae disceptat,depends upon, is at stake,Cic. Fam. 10, 10.
* Jurid. t. t. (lit., to seize hold of and separate; hence, to stop the dispute), to decide, determine, judge a controversy, = dijudicare (cf.: dissero, disputo; good prose, but rare): res juste sapienterque,Cic. Mil. 9: hanc causam si in foro dicerem eodem audiente et disceptante te,id. Deiot. 2, 6; cf.: ipso exercitu disceptante,Liv. 5, 4: jus dicebat disceptabatque controversias,id. 41, 20; cf.: controversias inter se jure ac judicio, aut ... bello,id. 38, 38 fin.: inter populum Carthaginiensem et regem in re praesenti,id. 34, 62 fin.: inter amicos,Plin. Ep. 7, 15, 2. al.: FETIALES BELLA DISCEPTANTO,i. e. to decide between peace and war,Cic. Leg. 2, 9.—*
* Beyond the judic. sphere: cum Academici eorum controversias disceptarent, Cic. Tusc. 4, 3, 6.—Far more freq.,.
* Transf., of the parties themselves: to debate, dispute, discuss, strive.
* With de: de controversiis jure apud se potius, quam inter se armis disceptare,Caes. B. G. 3, 107 fin.; cf.: de controversiis suis jure potius quam bello,Sall. J. 21 fin.; and see under β: non de aliquo crimine sed de publico jure,Cic. Balb. 28, 64; cf.: de foederum jure verbis,Liv. 21, 19: de jure vectigalium,id. 34, 62: de cunctis negotiis inter se,Sall. J. 11, 2 al.—Ellipt.: damni (i. e. de actione damni) disceptare,Dig. 48, 19, 28, § 12.—Pass. impers.: quanto periculo de jure publico disceptaretur armis,Cic. Fam. 4, 14, 2; 6, 1, 5: quorum de re,id. de Or. 2, 43, 183: de omnibus condicionibus,Caes. B. C. 1, 24 fin.: de agro cum regis legatis,Liv. 34, 62 al.—With ob: ob rem pecuniariam cum aliquo,Tac. A. 6, 5.—With ad: ad aliquem,Liv. 8, 23.
* Absol.: erat non jure, non legibus, non disceptando decertandum,Cic. Planc. 36; so, cum palaestritis aequo jure,Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 15; cf.: jure potius quam bellum gerere,Hirt. B. G. 85 fin.: armis,Tac. A. 2, 65.—Pass. impers.: ut coram imperatore, sicut inter Marcellum Siculosque disceptatum fuerat, disceptaretur,Liv. 26, 33; cf. id. 38, 35.— Abl. absol.: multum invicem disceptato,Tac. A. 15, 14.—*
* With inanimate subjects: in uno proelio omnis fortuna rei publicae disceptat,depends upon, is at stake,Cic. Fam. 10, 10.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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