Forensis, & hoc forense, Quod ad forum pertinet. Pertaining to the common place.Asperitas forensis. Quint. The roughnesse of stile vsed of an oratour in pleading.Forenses causæ.Cic.Genus dicendi forense.Quintil.The maner of stile vsed in pleading.Forensis homo. Quint. An oratour vndertaking causes.Fore vse latrocinium.Cic.Forenses literæ.Cic.The art of pleading or eloquence.Marte forensi valere.Ouid.To be a good and eloquent oratour to pleade in indgement.Opella forensis. Hor. Indicialis & forensis oratio.Cic.Forensis quæstus.Cic.Gaine gotten by pleading.Ratio forensis. Quint. Forensis therorica.Cic. Turba forensis. Ouid.Forensia vestimenta. Colum. Garments or robes vsed in the indgement place.Forensis & publicus vsus.Cic.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
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.