forum ī, n
1 FOR-,
an open space, public place, court, market-place
: forum, id est, vestibulum sepulcri: per fora
loqui, Ta.: Pars forum celebrant, O.—
A market-place, market, enclosure for selling, exchange
: fora exstruere, Ta.: rerum venalium, S.: cui fora multa
restarent,
had many market-places to visit
: boarium,
the cattle-market
(adjoining the circus), L.: holitorium,
the vegetable-market
, L.: piscatorium,
the fish-market
, L.— Prov.: Scisti uti foro, i. e.
to act for your advantage
, T.—
A market-place, forum, public square, exchange
(in each city, the centre of public life): Nunc forum quem spectat, i. e.
all the people
, H.: statua eius (Anici) Praeneste in foro
statuta, I<*>: mane forum pete, H.—In
Rome, esp. Forum Romanum, or Forum,
an open space between the Capitoline and Palatine hills, surrounded by porticos
and shops
: toto quantum foro spatium est, L.:
adripere verba de foro,
pick up in the street
: caruit foro Pompeius, i. e.
was compelled to avoid
: filiam in foro suā manu interemere: forumque
Litibus orbum, H.: ut primum forum
attigerim, i. e.
engaged in public affairs
: studia fori, Ta.: forum Mandabo siccis, i. e.
affairs of state
, H.: ut forum et iuris dictionem cum ferro et
armis conferatis,
the courts
: cedat forum castris: Insanum, V.:
forum agere,
hold court
: fori harena, Iu.: civitates, quae in id forum convenerant,
that court-district
: extra suum forum vadimonium promittere,
jurisdiction
: annos iam triginta in foro versaris,
in trade
: sublata erat de foro fides: hunc in foro non
haberemus, i. e.
he would have been bankrupt
: Cedere foro,
become bankrupt
, Iu.: Forum Augustum (with an ivory statue of
Apollo), O.; called forum, Iu.—As
nom
propr
. of many market and assize towns.—Esp.: Appī,
a markettown in Latium, on the
Via Appia, C., H.: Aurelium,
a small town on the
Via Aurelia, C.
