I.a strife of words, a disputation, dispute, controversy (several times in Cic.; “elsewhere rare): contentiones concertationesque in disputando pertinaces,” Cic. Fin. 1, 8, 27; cf.: “concertationum plenae disputationes,” id. de Or. 1, 43, 194: “concertationis studium,” id. Div. 1, 30, 62: imitatur disputandi prudentiam concertatio captatioque verborum, a love of disputation (the ἐριστική of the sophists), id. Part. Or. 23, 81: “jejuna verborum,” id. de Or. 2, 16, 68: “magistratuum,” id. Sest. 36, 77: “sententiarum circa aegros (of the physicians at the sick-bed),” Plin. 29, 1, 5, § 11; cf. id. 20, 18, 76, § 200.
concertātĭo , ōnis, f. concerto,