The Roman History From the Foundation of Rome to the Battle of Actium : That Is, to the End of the Commonwealth 2
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The * place for difpenfing juftice was not fixed, and depended on the Prstor : wherever the Praetor held his fittings, it was called Jus. He held them moll commonly in the Forum. The Curule chair en which he fat was placed above the judges, v/ho fat on benches under him. The -j- place where the Prsetor and judges heard caufes, was called the Praetor's Tri- bunal. ' Juftice was alfo difpenfed in other places. In Rome there were great and magnificent halls called Bafiiic^E, furrounded with piazza...s, where the judges aifembled. Quintiiian fpeaks of the J Bafilica Julia, where four different tribunals v/ere held at the fame tim.e, and ob- ferves that an advocate, named Trachalus, had ib ftrong a voice, that pleading at one of thofe tribunals, he made himfelf not only be heard but praifed and admired at the three others. He fpeaks alfo of a fa- mous profelTor of rhetoric, who § being to plead his lirft caufe before the Pr^tor at a Tribunal in the open air, was much confounded and perplexed, becaufe till then he had always fpoke within the narrow compafs of his fchool, and demanded as a favour that the tri- bunal might be transferred into a neighbouring Ba- filica.
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