rabula

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

răbŭla, ae, m. [1. rabo],

a brawling , wrangling advocate , a pettifogger (cf.: clamator, declamator): non declamatorem aliquem de ludo aut rabulam de foro ... quaerimus, Cic. Or. 15, 47; with causidicus and proclamator , id. de Or. 1, 46. 202; with latrator , Quint. 12, 9, 12; cf. Fest. s. v. rava vox, p. 137 Müll.; Non. 26, 21; 60, 19.

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