BAR Copy link • BAR 1. between two rafters, tignum transversum. For fastening doors, repagulum; obex: pessulus; sera; claustrum: to remove the bar, repagulum, or pessulum, or seram removere; seram demere; domum or januam reserare: to burst the bars, repagula convellere; claustra refringere. Where causes are tried, judices: subsellia: forum. On my first appearance at the bar, ut primum form attigi. He has left the bar, salutem dixit foro. The bar requires a good, strong voice, subsellia graviorem et pleniorem vocem desiderant. To plead at the bar, causas agere. The bar (advocates, etc.), patroni causarum, jurisconsulti; corpus jurisconsultorum. Of a tavern, cancelli. In music, linea transversa. An obstacle, impedimentum; mora. Of gold, silver, later aureus; later argenteus: silver in bars, argentum non signatum forma, sed rudi pondere (Curt., 5, 2, 12). 2. to fasten with a bar, obserare; ostium or fores obserare; pessulo januam claudere or occludere; pessulum foribus or ostio obdere. FIG. to obstruct, impedire aliquem ab aliqua re, or merely aliqua re (never in aliqua re); impedimento esse alicui (alicui rei); ad aliquid (never in aliqua re) impedimentum afferre alicui rei faciendae; obstare or officere alicui and alicui rei alicujus. To forbid, vetare with an accusative and infinitive following: interdicere alicui aliqua re (in the Golden Age, never alicui aliquid, or with ne following, denotes power to prevent): alicui praedicere, with ne or ut ne, denotes warning; interdicere alicui domo sua (Suet., Oct., 66). To prevent, arcere aliquem re or ab aliqua re: propulsare aliquid ab aliquo, or aliquem aliqua re, or ab aliqua re. Except, exclude: barring, excepto, -a, -is; nisi. Barring that, illud si exceperis, excluseris.