pertractatio
From LSJ
Εὐφήμει, ὦ ἄνθρωπε· ἁσμενέστατα μέντοι αὐτὸ ἀπέφυγον, ὥσπερ λυττῶντά τινα καὶ ἄγριον δεσπότην ἀποδράς → Hush, man, most gladly have I escaped this thing you talk of, as if I had run away from a raging and savage beast of a master
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
pertractātĭo: and pertrectātĭo, ōnis, f. pertracto, a touching; hence trop.,
I A handling: partium aegrarum, Gell. 5, 1, 4.—
II A handling, i. e. an occupying or busying one's self with any thing, application to any thing: poëtarum, Cic. de Or. 1, 42, 187: rerum publicarum, id. ib. 1, 11, 48.
