ADVOCATUS

seems originally to have signified any person who gave another his aid in any affair or busine , as a witne for instance; or for the purpose of aiding and protecting him in taking po e ion of a piece of property. It was also used to expre a person who in any way gave his advice and aid to another in the management of a cause; but, in the time of Cicero, the word did not signify the orator or patron us who made the speech. Under the emperors it signified a person who in any way a isted in the conduct of a cause, and was sometimes equivalent to orator. The advocate’s fee was then called Honorarium . ĂDỸTUM. [ Templum . ]