caussidicus

causĭdĭcus ( causs- ), i, m. [causadico], a pleader, advocate (in a contemptuous sense in distinction from orator; cf. Burm. Petr. 46, 7):

in somnis videmur... Causidici causas agere,

Lucr. 4, 966:

litium advocatus,

Quint. 12, 1, 25 Spald.;

connected with proclamator and rabula,

Cic. de Or. 1, 46, 202; cf. id. Or. 9, 30; Suet. Claud. 15; Tac. Or. 1 al.;

with praeco,

Juv. 6, 439; Petr. 46, 7; App. Mag. p. 305, 20; Cod. Th. 2, 10, 1 sqq.