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fŏrensis , e, adj. forum,
I.of or belonging to the market or forum, public, forensic: “oratio judicialis et forensis,” i. e. delivered in the forum, Cic. Or. 51, 170; cf.: “Thucydides hoc forense, concertatorium, judiciale non tractavit genus,id. Brut. 83, 287: “genus (dicendi) remotum a judiciis forensique certamine,id. Or. 61, 208: “rhetorica,id. Fin. 2, 6, 17: “dictio,id. Brut. 78, 272; cf.: “species,id. Planc. 12, 29: “in omnibus publicis privatis, forensibus domesticis, tuis amicorum negotiis,id. Fam. 5, 8 fin.: “res (opp. domesticae litterae),id. Or. 43 fin.: “sententia (opp. domestica),id. Fin. 2, 24, 77: “Marte forensi florere,” i. e. eloquence, Ov. P. 4, 6, 29: vestitu forensi ad portam est egressus, i. e. in his out-of-door dress (opp. to housedress), Liv. 33, 47 fin.; cf.: “ut vestitum, sic sententiam habeas aliam domesticam, aliam forensem,Cic. Fin. 2, 24, 77: “tutores constituuntur ... feminis, propter forensium rerum ignorantiam,Ulp. Fragm. 11, 1.— Absol.: “forensia,dress of state, Suet. Aug. 73; id. Calig. 17: “a natura comparata est opera mulieris ad domesticam diligentiam, viri ad exercitationem forensem et extraneam,Col. 12 praef. § 4.—Subst.: “rusticus, forensis, negotiator, miles, navigator, medicus, aliud atque aliud efficiunt,a public pleader, advocate, Quint. 5, 10, 27.—Plur., Vitr. 6, 5, 2.—With an odious access. notion: ex eo tempore in duas partes discessit civitas: aliud integer populus, fautor et cultor bonorum, aliud forensis factio tenebat, the market-place party or faction, i. e. worthless persons who hung about the market-places, Liv. 9, 46, 13; Quint. 12, 1, 25.
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