Discepto, discéptas, disceptâre. To dispute: co contend: to arbitrace: to iudge.Vt inter se de cunctis negotijs disceptarent.Salust.To debate of all matters betweene themselues.Iustè sapientér que aliquid disceptare.Cic.Disceptando decertare. Ci. To contend with reasoning.Missuros se in Africam qui inter populum Carthaginiensem & regem in re præsenti disceptarent.Liu.Which shoulde vpon viewe of the thing iudge betwene the king, &c.De fœderum iure verbis disceptare.Liu.Disceptare conditionibus.Cic.To debate a controuersie by offers on both partes made.Æqua conditione disceptare.Cic.Disceptare armis de controuersijs. Cæsar. To trie a quarrel by battaile or dint of sworde.Disceptatur armis de iure publico.Cic.To trie the righte of the common weale by vint of sworde.Æquo iure disceptare cum aliquo. Cic To trie a contronersie with.Rei sunt omnes quorum de re disceptatur. Cice. In vno prælio omnis fortuna Reipublicæ disceptat. Cicero. The whole state and condition of the common weale is ventured and tried by one battaile. Disceptare, cum genitiuo. Callistratus. Qui iactura adfectus est, damni disceptet. Let him pursue his domage or losse by law. Disceptare causam. Pomp. To trie a matter by arbitoures.Disceptare controuersias aliquorum. Cice. To examine and dissolue mens controuerstes. Disceptare, pro Conuenire. quod & Resortiri vocant. Pli. Disceptant codem foro Othronienses, Halidienses, &c.The Othroniens, &c. do resorte to the same common place for indgement in their affaires.
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discepto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [dis and capio]. I. 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.— B. Beyond the judic. sphere: cum Academici eorum controversias disceptarent, Cic. Tusc. 4, 3, 6.—Far more freq.,.II.Transf., of the parties themselves: to debate, dispute, discuss, strive. (a). 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 b: 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.—(b).Absol.: erat non jure, non legibus, non disceptando decertandum, Cic. Planc. 36; so, cum palaestritis aequo jure, id. 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.— B. With inanimate subjects: in uno proelio omnis fortuna rei publicae disceptat,