forensis

fŏrensis, e, adj. [forum], 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.