HORTENSIUS THE ADVOCATE AN HISTORICAL ESSAY ON THE OFFICE AND DUTIES OF AN BY WILLIAM FORSYTH AUTHOR OF "HISTORY OF TRIAL BY JURY," 'LIFE OF CICERO," PREFACE. 'HE object of the following pages is to pre ΤΗ sent in a popular form an historical sketch of the office and functions of an Advocate. It occurred to me that the subject afforded materials for work which would not be devoid of interest, and perhaps instruction, if, without going into minute and tedious detail, some of the more salient points were selected in the history of that profession. I therefore devoted the task to the unemployed hours of the legal vacation, confining my attention principally to the countries of Greece and Rome, France and England, where oratory, with which advocacy is so closely allied that in the Latin language they are almost synonymous terms, has been cultivated with the greatest reputation and success. In the course of the work, translations, both in prose and verse, of passages from the classic authors frequently occur. These are in every case of my own, and the critical scholar may object that some of the terms have not been rendered with |