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| | FORUM - LoveToKnow Article on FORUM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) |
 | | In addition to the Forum Romanum, the Fora of Caesar and Augustus belonged to the former class; the Forum boarium (cattle), holitorium (vegetable), piscarium (fish), pistorium (bread), vinarium (wine), to the latter. |
 | | The forum was usually paved, and although on festal occasions chariots were probably driven through, it was not a thoroughfare and was enclosed by gates at the entrances, of which traces have been found at Pompeii. |
 | | In legal phraseology, which distinguishes the forum commune from the forum privilegiatum, and the forum generale from.the forum speciale, the word is practically equivalent to court or jurisdiction. |
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