dirimere+(componere

contrōversĭa, ae ( dat. plur. CONTROVORSEIS, C. I. L. 1, 199, 1), f. [controversus], lit., a turning against. *

Lit.:

si controversia aquae insulam subverterit,

the turning of the water against it, Dig. 39, 2, 24, § 5.—

Trop., controversy, contention, quarrel, question, dispute, debate (so in good prose, and very freq., esp. in jurid. and rhet. lang.;

in Quint. more than sixty times): nulla controversia mihi tecum erit,

Plaut. Aul. 2, 2, 83:

apage! controversia'st,

id. Rud. 3, 5, 46:

quicquid est quod in controversiā aut in contentione versetur... a propriis personis et temporibus semper avocet controversiam (orator),

Cic. Or. 14, 45 (cited ap. Quint. 3, 5, 15); cf. id. de Or. 3, 30, 120:

controversias tollere,

id. Phil. 9, 5, 11; cf.

distrahere,

id. Caecin. 2, 6:

rem in controversiam vocare,

id. de Or. 2, 72, 291:

rem adducere in controversiam,

id. ib. 1, 40, 183:

rem deducere in controversiam,

Caes. B. G. 7, 63:

rem ducere in controversiam,

Quint. 3, 8, 52:

venire in controversiam,

Cic. de Or. 1, 31, 139; Quint. 3, 6, 44 al.:

qui tum agrum, qui in controversiā erat, obtinebat,

Liv. 40, 34, 14:

esse in controversiā,

Auct. Her. 1, 10, 17; 2, 28, 45:

controversiae scholasticae,

Quint. 4, 2, 92;

as the title of a rhet. writing of Seneca: Controversiae: existere controversias ex scripti interpretatione,

Cic. de Or. 1, 31, 140:

controversiam alere,

Caes. B. G. 7, 32 fin.:

constituere,

Cic. de Or. 1, 31, 143: dicere, Quint. 3, 8, 51:

exponere,

id. 10, 7, 21 al.:

dirimere,

Cic. Off. 3, 33, 119:

componere,

Caes. B. C. 1, 9 fin.:

sedare,

Cic. Balb. 19, 43:

ut controversiarum ac dissensionum obliviscerentur,

Caes. B. G. 7, 34:

cujus hereditatis controversia fuerat nulla,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 18, § 46:

magnae rei familiaris,

id. Rosc. Am. 31, 87:

movere controversiam nominis,

Tac. Or. 25:

cum de loco et tempore ejus rei controversia inferretur,

Caes. B. C. 1, 86:

ea controversia, quam habet de fundo cum quodam Colophonio,

Cic. Fam. 13, 69, 2; id. Verr. 2, 3, 84, § 194; id. Brut. 18, 72:

de jure,

Quint. 7, 7, 9:

de substantiā aut de qualitate,

id. 3, 6, 39:

de verbo,

Cels. 3, 3, 25:

controversia est inter scriptores de numero annorum,

Cic. Brut. 18, 72:

controversia orta inter eos de principatu,

Caes. B. C. 3, 112; cf. id. B. G. 5, 44; 7, 33:

controversia non erat, quin verum dicerent,

Cic. Caecin. 11, 31:

nihil controversiae fuit, quin consules crearentur, etc.,

Liv. 4, 17, 7:

sine controversiā ab dis solus diligere,

beyond dispute, without doubt, indisputably, Ter. Phorm. 5, 6, 14; Cic. Off. 3, 2, 7:

sine ullā controversiā,

id. Caecin. 7, 19.