ADVERSA´RIA
ADVERSA´RIA note-book, memorandum-book,
posting-book, in which the Romans entered memoranda of any importance,
especially of money received and expended, which were afterwards
transcribed, usually every month, into a kind of ledger. (
Tabulae
justae, codex accepti et expensi.) The
adversaria were not admitted as legal evidence, although the
tabulae were (cf. Gaius, §
128-133; Ortolan,
Explic. Hist. 3.244 ff.). They were
probably called
adversaria because they lay
always open before the eyes. (
Cic. p. Rosc.
Com. 2,7; Propert. 3.23, 20.)
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