Conténtio, onis, fœ. gen. An carnest indruour: an inforcement or setting foorth with vchementie: a string: a behement maner of speaking. Contention: sirise: debate: variance: brabbling: brawling. A comparing, or couferring. A sharpe oration apte to confir me or reprone.Miserrina est ambitio, honoiúmque contentio.Cic.Great labour or earnest sute for promotions.Impetus d cendi contentióque Cic.A vchement and sharpe maner of pleading.Labor & contentio.Cic.Veheinentissa contentio animi, ingenij, virium. Cicer.A very earuest bending of the minde, &c.Animi magna, vocis parua contentio.Cic.Animi contentio, cui oppon: tur Relaxatio.Cic.Animorum contentione diepate non opinionum dissensione. Cic.To varie in debate of minde, and not in diuersirie of opinious.Contentionem animi adhibere.Cic.To be very attentiue & bende his minde earnestly vpon.Contentio vocis sine intetmissione. Cicer Continuall strayning of the doyze without pausing.Contentio orationis plurimum valet.Cic.Vthement pleading.Vocis contentio, & vocis Remissio pugnant.Cic.Lowde, and soft speaking.Oratio non magnæ in dicendo concentionis.Cic.Pugna summa contentione pugnata.Cic.Summa vis & contentio sermonis, cui opponitur Lenitas semonis.Cic.A sharpe maner of speaking. Contentio, Concertatio Cic.Contention, strife, &c.Belli contentio.Cic.Fighting in warre.Grauitatis & penderum contentio Cic.Decertare cum aliquo contentione dicendi.Cic.Meritorum in Rempub. contentio. Cic.An earnest handling of ones desertes toward the common weale.Accurata & inimicitijs incenla contentio.Cic.Acerrima contentio.Cic.Contentio inter aliquos de possessione.Cic.Impendet summa inter eos contentio.Cicer.There will be shortly great contention betweene them. Fortunatum contentionem facere.Cic.To moue controuerste for goodes, and all that we haue.Res etiam dicitur venire in contentionem.Cic.To come in cantrouersie. Ex aliorum contentione cognosci atque intelligi possunt.Cicer.They may be knowne by the comparison and conferehce with other things.Contentio ipsorum hominum faciÊda.Cic.The men themselues must be compared one with another.Contentè Contineor. Vide suo loco.
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contentĭo, ōnis, f. [contendo] (acc. to contendo, II.), an eager stretching, a straining, exertion of the powers of body or mind, tension, effort, a vigorous struggling or striving for something, a struggle after (very freq. and in good prose). I. In gen. A. Prop.: contentio et summissio vocis, Cic. Off. 1, 41, 146; id. de Or. 1, 61, 261: vocis, id. Tusc. 2, 24, 56: vocis aut lateris, Plin. 26, 13, 85, 137 al.: gravitatis et ponderum,
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, Cic. N. D. 2, 45, 116: animi (opp. relaxatio), id. de Or. 2, 5, 21; cf. id. Arch. 6, 12 et saep.—With gen. of the object: disputationis, Cic. de Or. 3, 61, 230: honorum (with ambitio), id. Off. 1, 25, 87; cf. palmae, Quint. 1, 2, 24: dignitatis, id. 4, 5, 12; cf.: libertatis dignitatisque, Liv. 4, 6, 11 al.—B.Transf.1.Labored, formal speech (opp. talk, conversation): quoniam magna vis orationis est, eaque duplex, altera contentionis, altera sermonis; contentio disceptationibus tribuatur judiciorum ... sermo in circulis, etc., Cic. Off. 1, 37, 132; 2, 14, 48 Heine ad loc.; cf.: sermo est oratio remissa et finitima cottidianae locutioni; contentio est oratio acris, etc., Auct. Her. 3, 13, 23.— 2. Gregum = admissura, Censor. 5.—II. In partic. A. (Acc. to contendo, II. B. 2.) A contest, contention, strife (with weapons or words), a fight, dispute, controversy (so most freq.): contentiones proeliorum, Cic. Off. 1, 26, 90; cf.: magna belli, id. Sest. 27, 58: contentiones, quae cum inimicissimis fiunt, id. Off. 1, 38, 137; so with cum, id. Phil. 2, 3, 7; id. Leg. 3, 11, 25 al.: cum aliquo de aliquā re, Quint. 4, 2, 132: de aliquā re, Cic. Leg. 3, 10, 24; Liv. 4, 6, 4; Quint. 5, 14, 12 al.: adversus procuratores, Tac. Agr. 9: inter aliquos, Cic. Sest. 21, 47; Quint. 10, 1, 47; Suet. Claud. 15 et saep.; cf.: inter aliquos de aliquā re, Cic. Ac. 2, 43, 132 et saep.: contentionis cupidiores quam veritatis, id. de Or. 1, 11, 47; Curt. 8, 4, 33.—B. (Acc. to contendo, II. B. 3.) A comparison, contrast: si contentio quaedam et comparatio fiat, Cic. Off. 1, 17, 57; 1, 43, 152; cf. id. Inv. 1, 12, 17: quaedam hominum ipsorum, id. Planc. 2, 5; id. Inv. 2, 39, 114: fortunarum, id. Pis. 22, 51.—Hence, 2. T. t. a. In rhetoric, a contrasting of one thought with another, antithesis, Auct. Her. 4, 15, 21; Cic. de Or. 3, 53, 203; Quint. 9, 1, 31; 9, 2, 2.— b. In gram., comparison, Varr. L. L. 8, 75 Müll.