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audītōrĭus, a, um, adj. [auditor], relating to a hearer or hearing.

As adj. only once:

cavernae,

the auditory passages, Cael. Aur. Tard. 2, 3.—Far more freq.,

Subst.: audītōrĭum, ii, n.

A hearing of a cause at law, a judicial examination (cf. audio, II. A. 3.), Dig. 4, 8, 41.—

The place where something (a discourse, a lecture) is heard, a lecture-room, hall of justice (not in Cic.;

perh. in gen. not before the Aug. period): cujus rei gratiā plenum sit auditorium,

Quint. 2, 11, 3:

domum mutuatur et auditorium exstruit etc.,

Tac. Or. 9; 10; 39:

nonnulla in coetu familiarium velut in auditorio recitavit,

Suet. Aug. 85; id. Tib. 11; id. Claud. 41; id. Rhet. 6; * Vulg. Act. 25, 23; Dig. 42, 1, 54; 49, 9, 1; 4, 4. 18 al.— Trop., of the forum:

non rudibus dimicantes nec auditorium semper plenum,

Tac. Or. 34.—

A school, in opp. to public life:

condicio fori et auditorii,

Quint. 10, 1, 36.—

The assembled hearers themselves, the audience, auditory:

nuper adhibito ingenti auditorio,

Plin. Ep. 4, 7; so App. Mag. p. 320, 33.

audītōrĭus, a, um, adj. [auditor], relating to a hearer or hearing.

As adj. only once:

cavernae,

the auditory passages, Cael. Aur. Tard. 2, 3.—Far more freq.,

Subst.: audītōrĭum, ii, n.

A hearing of a cause at law, a judicial examination (cf. audio, II. A. 3.), Dig. 4, 8, 41.—

The place where something (a discourse, a lecture) is heard, a lecture-room, hall of justice (not in Cic.;

perh. in gen. not before the Aug. period): cujus rei gratiā plenum sit auditorium,

Quint. 2, 11, 3:

domum mutuatur et auditorium exstruit etc.,

Tac. Or. 9; 10; 39:

nonnulla in coetu familiarium velut in auditorio recitavit,

Suet. Aug. 85; id. Tib. 11; id. Claud. 41; id. Rhet. 6; * Vulg. Act. 25, 23; Dig. 42, 1, 54; 49, 9, 1; 4, 4. 18 al.— Trop., of the forum:

non rudibus dimicantes nec auditorium semper plenum,

Tac. Or. 34.—

A school, in opp. to public life:

condicio fori et auditorii,

Quint. 10, 1, 36.—

The assembled hearers themselves, the audience, auditory:

nuper adhibito ingenti auditorio,

Plin. Ep. 4, 7; so App. Mag. p. 320, 33.

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audītĭo, ōnis, f. [audio].

A hearing, a listening to (syn.:

auditus, auscultatio): (pueri) fabellarum auditione ducuntur,

Cic. Fin. 5, 15, 42:

qui est versatus in auditione et cogitatione, quae studio et diligentiā praecurrit aetatem,

id. de Or. 2, 30, 131; Quint. 2, 2, 11; 10, 1, 10: audite auditionem in terrore vocis ejus, hear a hearing (after the Heb.), i. e. hear attentively, Vulg. Job, 37, 2.—

Hearsay:

hoc solum auditione expetere coepit, cum id ipse non vidisset?

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 46.—Hence, meton.,

(Abstr. pro concr.) A report, hearsay, news (also in plur.):

si accepissent famā et auditione esse quoddam numen et vim deorum,

Cic. N. D. 2, 37, 95: fictae auditiones, [p. 203] id. Planc. 23, 56: ne tenuissimam quidem auditionem de eā re accepi, not even the slightest inkling, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 1:

His rebus atque auditionibus permoti etc.,

Caes. B. G. 4, 5; 7, 42:

falsae auditiones,

Tac. A. 4, 11 fin.:

ab auditione malā non timebit,

Vulg. Psa. 111, 7; ib. Nah. 3, 19.— And

Effect for cause, the voice:

Domine, audivi auditionem tuam et timui,

Vulg. Hab. 3, 2.—

The hearing of a pupil (cf. audio, II. A. 2.); hence, meton. (abstr. pro concr.), a lecture, lesson, discourse (perh. only post-Aug.):

Sedere in scholis auditioni operatos,

Plin. 26, 2, 6, § 11:

egressus ex auditione,

Gell. 14, 1; 18, 2; 19, 8.—

For auditus, the sense of hearing, the hearing, App. Dogm. Plat. p. 9, 27.

cătasta, ae, f. [katastasis] (postAug.), a scaffold, stage,

On which slaves were exposed for sale, Tib. 2, 3, 60; Pers. 6, 77 Schol.; Plin. 35, 18, 58, § 200; Suet. Gram. 13; Stat. S. 2, 1, 72.—

For the public burning ( of criminals, martyrs, etc.), Prud. steph. 1, 56; 2, 399 al.—

For delivering a lecture, Rutil. 1, 393; Cypr. Ep. 28.

commentārĭus, ii, m. (sc. liber;

both together,

Gell. 13, 20, 17); commentā-rĭum, ii, n. (sc. volumen, Varr. L. L. 6, § 90 Müll.; Cic. Brut. 44, 164; cf. commentariolum) [commentor].

Orig. a note-book, sketch-book, memorandum:

diurni,

a journal, Suet. Aug. 64.—

As the title of a book on any subject, but esp. historical, which is only sketched down or written without care (mostly in plur.), a sketch, a paper, memoirs, a commentary, etc., Cic. Fam. 5, 12, 10; Liv. 42, 6, 3; Quint. 2, 11, 7; 3, 8, 58; 3, 8, 67; 8, 2, 12; 10, 7, 30 al.; Tac. A. 6, 47; Suet. Tib. 61 et saep. Thus the two works of Cæsar upon the Gallic and civil wars are called Commentarii, commentaries, Cic. Brut. 75, 262; Hirt. and Asin. Pollio ap. Suet. Caes. 56.—Of a single book:

superiore commentario,

i. e. in the Seventh Book, Hirt. B. G. 8, 30; cf. Gai Inst. 2, 23; 2, 145.—

Esp.

A commentary, exposition, brief explanation, annotation:

commentarium in Vergilium,

Gell. 2, 6, 1; cf. id. 1, 12; 1, 21.—

In law, a brief, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 21, § 54.—

The day-book of an accounting officer, Inscr. Grut. 592, 4; Inscr. Orell. 2904.—

A collection of examples or citations, Quint. 1, 8, 19.—

A pupil ' s notes of a lecture or lesson, Quint. 3, 6, 59.

commentārĭus, ii, m. (sc. liber;

both together,

Gell. 13, 20, 17); commentā-rĭum, ii, n. (sc. volumen, Varr. L. L. 6, § 90 Müll.; Cic. Brut. 44, 164; cf. commentariolum) [commentor].

Orig. a note-book, sketch-book, memorandum:

diurni,

a journal, Suet. Aug. 64.—

As the title of a book on any subject, but esp. historical, which is only sketched down or written without care (mostly in plur.), a sketch, a paper, memoirs, a commentary, etc., Cic. Fam. 5, 12, 10; Liv. 42, 6, 3; Quint. 2, 11, 7; 3, 8, 58; 3, 8, 67; 8, 2, 12; 10, 7, 30 al.; Tac. A. 6, 47; Suet. Tib. 61 et saep. Thus the two works of Cæsar upon the Gallic and civil wars are called Commentarii, commentaries, Cic. Brut. 75, 262; Hirt. and Asin. Pollio ap. Suet. Caes. 56.—Of a single book:

superiore commentario,

i. e. in the Seventh Book, Hirt. B. G. 8, 30; cf. Gai Inst. 2, 23; 2, 145.—

Esp.

A commentary, exposition, brief explanation, annotation:

commentarium in Vergilium,

Gell. 2, 6, 1; cf. id. 1, 12; 1, 21.—

In law, a brief, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 21, § 54.—

The day-book of an accounting officer, Inscr. Grut. 592, 4; Inscr. Orell. 2904.—

A collection of examples or citations, Quint. 1, 8, 19.—

A pupil ' s notes of a lecture or lesson, Quint. 3, 6, 59.

lĭbellus, i, m. dim. [3. liber].

The inner bark of a tree, used for writing-tablets: levis in aridulo malvae descripta libello (carmina), Cinna ap. Isid. Orig. 6, 12. —

Transf., a little book, pamphlet, esp. a book written in pages, and not in long rolls:

epistulae, quas primus videtur ad paginas et formam memorialis libelli convertisse (opp. transversa charta),

Suet. Caes. 56.

In gen.:

scripsi etiam illud quodam in libello,

Cic. de Or. 1, 21, 94:

in quodam joculari libello,

Quint. 8, 6, 73; 2, 13, 15:

quoi dono lepidum novum libellum,

Cat. 1, 1:

horribilis et sacer,

id. 14, 12:

quicquid hoc libelli est,

id. 1, 8:

libellis eum (Scipionem) palaestraeque operam dare,

to books, Liv. 29, 19 fin.:

nostri farrago libelli,

Juv. 1, 86.—Of a single satire, Hor. S. 1, 10, 92.—

In plur., poet., a bookseller's shop:

te (quaesivimus) in omnibus libellis,

Cat. 55, 4 (dub.; al. labellis); Mart. 5, 20, 8.—

In partic., a writing of any kind.

A memorandumbook, journal, diary:

si quid memoriae causā retulit in libellum,

Cic. Phil. 1, 8, 19:

in commentariolis et chirographis et libellis,

id. ib. 1, 7, 16; Quint. 12, 8, 5; cf. id. 10, 7, 31; 11, 3, 142; 6, 2, 5.—

A memorial:

non illi in libellis laudationum decreta miserunt,

Cic. Clu. 69, 197.—

A petition:

Atticus libellum composuit: eum mihi dedit, ut darem Caesari,

Cic. Att. 16, 16, A, 4:

libellum alicui porrigere,

Suet. Aug. 53:

supplices libelli,

Mart. 8, 31, 3:

vitem posce libello,

Juv. 14, 193: libellos signare, subnotare, to answer petitions:

libellos signare,

Suet. Aug. 50:

subnotare libellos,

Plin. Ep. 1, 10, 9; so,

ad libellum rescribere, Mos. et Rom. Leg. Coll. 3, 3, 5: libellos agere,

to have the charge of answering petitions, Dig. 20, 5, 12: a libellis, the officer charged with receiving petitions:

Epaphroditum a libellis capitali poena condemnavit,

Suet. Dom. 14; Inscr. Grut. 587, 9:

A LIBELLIS ADIVTOR,

ib. 587, 7.—

A note of invitation, to hear a lecture, see a play, etc., a notice, programme:

gladiatorum libellos venditare,

Cic. Phil. 2, 38, 97:

domum mutuatur et subsellia conducit et libellos dispergit,

Tac. Or. 9: munerarius, the programme of a festival, Treb. Claud. 5.—

A public notification, announcement, placard, handbill:

edere per libellos,

Suet. Caes. 41:

libellos Sex. Alfenus, procurator P. Quincti, deicit,

tears down the auction handbills, Cic. Quint. 6, 27:

suspensum amici bonis libellum,

Sen. Ben. 4, 12:

vestitur tota libellis porticus,

Juv. 12, 100.—

A letter:

(laetitias) in libello hoc opsignato quas tuli pausillulo,

Plaut. Ps. 2, 4, 16 (cf. epistulam, id. ib. v. 26):

libellum ipsius habeo in quo, etc.,

Cic. Att. 6, 1, 5: ut ex libellis ejus animadverti, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 11, 1.—

A libel, lampoon, pasquinade (post-Aug.):

libellos aut carmina ad infamiam cujuspiam edere,

Suet. Aug. 55; id. Caes. 80; id. Vit. 14:

sparsos de se in Curia famosos libellos,

id. Aug. 55:

sive quis ad infamiam alicujus libellum aut carmen scripserit,

Gai. Inst. 3, 220:

injuriam patimur... famosis libellis,

Paul. Sent. 5, 4, 1.—

A written accusalion or complaint (post-Aug.):

componunt ipsae per se formantque libellos,

Juv. 6, 244; Dig. 48, 2, 3.—

A lawyer's brief:

quid causidicis praestent magno comites in fasce libelli?

Juv. 7, 107.—

An attestation, certificate:

significent id libello manu sua subscripto,

Dig. 39, 4, 4.

pergŭla, ae, f. [pergo; cf. tegula, from tego].

A projection or shed in front of a house, used as a booth, stall, shop; of an exchanger, Plin. 21, 3, 6, § 8; of a paintingroom, studio, Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 84; Lucil. ap. Lact. 1, 22.—

A shop, Dig. 5, 1, 19.—

A school, a lecture-room:

mathematici pergula,

Suet. Aug. 94:

in pergulā docuit,

id. Gram. 18:

pergulae magistrales,

Vop. Sat. 10 fin. — Transf.:

cui cedere debeat omnis Pergula,

the whole school, all the scholars, Juv. 11, 137.—

A brothel, Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 79; Prop. 5, 5, 70.—

A vine-arbor, Col. 4, 21; 11, 2:

umbrosae,

Plin. 14, 1, 3, § 11.—

A hut, hovel (opp. aedes):

in pergulā natus,

Petr. 74; Aus. Ep. 4, 6.

phormĭo ( form-), ōnis, m., = phormion, wicker-work of reeds or rushes, a mat, a straw covering, Dig. 33, 7, 12; Don. Ter. Phorm. prol. 27; 1, 2, 72.

Phormĭo, ōnis, m.

The name of a parasite in Terence, in a play of the same name. —

A Peripatetic philosopher of Ephesus, who delivered a lecture in the presence of Hannibal on the duties of military commanders and on the art of war, Cic. de Or. 2, 18, 75; hence, transf., of a silly person, who talks about things which he does not understand:

egomet in multos jam Phormiones incidi,

id. ib. 2, 19, 77.—

A Roman surname: Sextus Clodius Phormio, Cic. Caecin. 10, 27; id. Phil. 2, 6, 15.

phormĭo ( form-), ōnis, m., = phormion, wicker-work of reeds or rushes, a mat, a straw covering, Dig. 33, 7, 12; Don. Ter. Phorm. prol. 27; 1, 2, 72.

Phormĭo, ōnis, m.

The name of a parasite in Terence, in a play of the same name. —

A Peripatetic philosopher of Ephesus, who delivered a lecture in the presence of Hannibal on the duties of military commanders and on the art of war, Cic. de Or. 2, 18, 75; hence, transf., of a silly person, who talks about things which he does not understand:

egomet in multos jam Phormiones incidi,

id. ib. 2, 19, 77.—

A Roman surname: Sextus Clodius Phormio, Cic. Caecin. 10, 27; id. Phil. 2, 6, 15.