ADVOCATE Copy link • ADVOCATE 1. causarum actor: causidicus (general term, a lawyer who manages causes: the latter a depreciating term). The advocate in a cause, defensor (one who defends another in a court of justice): advocatus (the lawyer who assists and advises anybody in the management of hiscause): actor (one who conducts a judicial accusation for anybody): patronus causae, patronus (the advocate who spoke in court for his client). In private causes, cognitor (the agent who managed the case of a party who has himself appeared in court): procurator (who conducts the case of an absent person in his own name). Vid :, LAWYER.A noisy or blustering advocate, rabula de foro; rabula latratorque. To be an advocate, causas agere, actitare, causas dicere in foro; versari in foro. To be anybody’s advocate, causam dicere pro aliquo: in anything, de aliqua re: defendere aliquem de aliqua re; alicui causae actorem intercedere. To employ an advocate, adoptare sibi patronum, defensorem; deferre causam ad patronum. Champion of a cause, defensor: propugnator (e.g., libertatis, Cic.): patronus (e.g., foederum). 2. v. pugnare, propugnara pro aliqua re; defendere aliquid.