Par. 3

Question 1

mirus, -a, -um

Answer 1

astonishing

Question 2

quaestio, -ionis

Answer 2

(f.) the court, the judges; ‘in queastione legitima’ - in a court of law

Question 3

iudicium, -i

Answer 3

(n.) a trial

Question 4

iudicium publicum

Answer 4

a case defended against an accusation on behalf of the populus Romanus rather than a dispute between private individuals

Question 5

ago, agere, egi, actus [legal sense]

Answer 5

to try or plead a legal case (res or causa)

Question 6

apud

Answer 6

(adv.) in the presence of, before [as in ‘before a judge’]

Question 7

praetor, -oris

Answer 7

(m.) judge

Question 8

lectissimus, -a, -um

Answer 8

(sup. adj.) worthy, excellent

Question 9

severus, -a, -um

Answer 9

(adj.) strict, severe, serious

Question 10

conventus, -us

Answer 10

(m.) a throng; an assembly

Question 11

frequentia, -iae

Answer 11

(f.) a crowd; numerous attendence

Question 12

non modo … verum etiam

Answer 12

not only … but also

Question 13

sermo, sermonis

Answer 13

(m.) language, discourse, manner of speaking; ‘forensi sermone’ - abl. of ‘legal language’

Question 14

quaeso, quaesere, quaesii/ivi, quaesitus

Answer 14

(3rd) to seek, to seek to get, to ask

Question 15

venia, -iae

Answer 15

(f.) pardon, indulgence

Question 16

accomodatus, -a, -um

Answer 16

(adj.) suitable, appropriate to

Question 17

reus, rei

Answer 17

(m.) defendant

Question 18

molesto, -are, avi, -atus

Answer 18

to trouble, to annoy

Question 19

eruditus, -a, -um

Answer 19

(adj.) learned, accomplished

Question 20

concursus, -us

Answer 20

(m.) a throng, an assembly

Question 21

litteratus, -a, -um

Answer 21

learned, liberally educated

Question 22

denique

Answer 22

(adv.) lastly, finally

Question 23

exerceo, -ere, -ui, -itus [excercente]

Answer 23

(2nd) to administer, oversee

Question 24

patior, pati, passus sum

Answer 24

(3rd dep.) to allow/permit

Question 25

paulo … liberius

Answer 25

a little more freely

Question 26

modus, -i

Answer 26

(m.) the sort, the manner

Question 27

persona, -ae

Answer 27

(f.) a theatrical character; a person playing a part; a being having legal rights and obligations; a person

Question 28

minime

Answer 28

(adv.) least of all, very little

Question 29

tracto, -are, -avi, -atus

Answer 29

(1st) to play/represent; to haul or drag

Question 30

persona tractare

Answer 30

to play a part