Dimicatio, onis, f. g. Verb. Liu.Battasle: fight: contention: strife.Si in extremo discrimine ac dimicatione fortunæ deseruerit Cic.If he forsake vs in the extreame peril and daunger of fortune.Dimicatio capitis, famæ, &c.Cic.The peril or daunger of life honour, &c.Fortunarum dimicatio.Cic.A perillous strife, when all a mã hath, is in daunger.Dimicatio prælij.Cic.The shock of the battaile.Vitæ dimicatio.Cic.A perilous contention wherein life is in daunger. Artifex dimicatio. Plin. Periculosa.Liu. Solers. Plin. In aciem, dimicationémque venire.Cicer.To come into the battaile to fight.Cum caniculis atrox dimicatio. Plin.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
dīmĭcātĭo, ōnis, f. [dimico], a fight, combat, furious encounter (cf.: pugna, proelium, certamen, contentio, acies; freq. and good prose). I.Lit., Caes. B. C. 3, 111, 2; Hirt. B. G. 8, 11; Liv. 25, 6 fin.; 31, 35fin.; Suet. Aug. 10; 17; Plin. 8, 7, 7, 18; Front. Strat. 2, 1, 11 et saep.—In plur., Caes. B. G. 7, 86, 3; Front. Strat. 1, 11, 12.—(b). With gen.: proelii, Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 5: universae rei,
a pitched battle, general engagement
, Liv. 1, 38; for which, universa, id. 22, 32. —II.Transf. beyond the milit. sphere, a combating, struggling; a contest: non modo contentione, sed etiam dimicatione elaborandum, Cic. Fam. 2, 6 fin.: talis in remp. nostram labor, assiduitas, dimicatio, id. Balb. 2 fin.; Liv. 10, 24; Quint. 5, 7, 3; 6, 4, 4 al.—(b). With gen.: vitae, i. e.