causidicus
causidicus, a pleader, advocate, special pleader
causĭdĭcus (causs-), i, m. [causadico],
- a pleader, advocate (in a contemptuous sense in distinction from orator; cf. Burm. Petr. 46, 7): in somnis videmur ... Causidici causas agere, Lucr. 4, 966: litium advocatus, Quint. 12, 1, 25 Spald.; connected with proclamator and rabula, Cic. de Or. 1, 46, 202; cf. id. Or. 9, 30; Suet. Claud. 15; Tac. Or. 1 al.; with praeco, Juv. 6, 439; Petr. 46, 7; Ap. Apol. p. 305, 20; Cod. Th. 2, 10, 1 sqq.
causidicus, ī, m. (causa u. dico), der Rechtsanwalt, Advokat (im verächtlichen Sinne als ein für Geld u. kunstlos Plädierender), Cic. u.a.
palatii sui ~is praecipiens ut juste discernerent
inter reum et Deum obstat ~us[sc. Augustinus ] mediator
inde sum, fateor, de rustico ~us, et pene jam satyricus formidolosa tarditate praecurro(
[H. Losinga ], sicut tempore Willelmi regis simonie ~us, ita regnante Henrico propulsator invictus
dat opes dolus amplas / causidicis
pragma Grece ‘causa’ Latine, unde pragmatici, id est ~i
sic una brevisque viri justi optinuit allegatio quod vix unquam crederetur optinere ~orum quantalibet multitudo
per Reinardum intelligimus advocatos, ~os, fraudulentos
congregatis metropolitano Cantuar’ et suffraganeis suis ‥, insurgentes duo ~i ‥ et regalem favorem querentes, insistunt ‥ probare clerum ipsi regi in tempore belli ‥ posse licite subvenire
unum librum vocatum Albertinus †Causiticus
causĭdĭcus, (12) ī, m. (causa, dico), avocat de profession [avec idée péjorative] : Cic. Or. 30 ; de Or. 1, 202.
causasseu lites ventilat et dirimit. Charta ann. 1159. in Tabul. eccl. S. Thom. Argent. fol. 5 :
Attestantibus Brunone præposito Avellan. ecclesiæ,
et Alberto Causidico ejusdem villæ Mutziche. Alia ann. 1307. in Chartul.
Pontiniac. pag. 226 : Frater Theobaldus Causidicus monasterii Pontigniacensis,
etc. Idem, ni fallor, qui Plaideurappellatur, in Ch. ann. 1316. ibid. pag. 234 :
Danz Jehan de Brene, Plaidéeur de Vide supra Causa
4.causidicus ī, m
- causa + DIC-, a pleader, advocate, special pleader, C.: purpura vendit Causidicum, Iu.