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every forty days, to inquire concerning all offenders againft 
vert and venifon. See Forest. 
FO'RUM,/ [Latin.] Any public place. 
Clole to the bay great Neptune’s fane adjoins, 
And near a forum flank’d with marble (bines, 
Where the bold youth, the numerous fleets to (tore, 
Shape the broad fail, or fmooth the taper oar. Pope. 
Forum, in Roman antiquity, was a public court in the 
city of Rome, where caufes were judicially tried, and 
orations delivered to the people. Forum was alfo ufed 
for a place of traffic, anfwering to our market-place. 
Thefe were ufually denominated fora venalia ; in contra- 
didinftion to the former, which were called fora civilia. 
The fora civilia were public courts of juffice, very mag¬ 
nificent, and furjounded with porticos and (lately edifices; 
of thefe there were fix : i. Forum Romatium. 2. Julianum. 
3. Augufum. a,. Palladium. 5. Forum Trajani. 6 . Forum Sa- 
liifiii. The Forum Romanum was the mod: noted, and is 
called (imply Forum, by way of eminence. This was the 
pleading place called Rofra, the Cornitium, the fanftuary 
of Saturn, temple of Cafor, &c. 
The fora venalia, or market-places of Rome, were very 
numerous. The chief of them were the forum boarium 
for oxen or beef; fuarium for fwine ; piforium for bread ; 
cupcdinarium .for dainties ; olitorium for garden fluff. The 
Grecian exactly correfpond with the Roman fora , 
being places where courts and markets were held. At 
Athens they had many fora, but the chief of them were 
She old and the new. Forum indicerc, was the aft of the 
praetor appointing the place in Rome where caufes were 
to be tried. Agere forum denoted the bringing on caufes 
out of Rome, in a Roman province (Cicero), the fame 
with agere conventum (Florus). The term forum, addend 
So a proper name, denoted fome principal town; as, 
FORUM ALLIE'NI, a place mentioned only by Ta¬ 
citus ; now thought to be Ferrara, capital of the duchy 
of that name in Italy. Lat. 44. 46. N. Ion. 12.5. E. 
FORUM AP'PII, a town of the Volfci, in Latium, on 
the Via Appia, a little beyond the Tres Tabernae ; fet down 
in the Jerufalem Itinerary as fituated near the river Nym- 
phaeus : now entirely extinft. 
FORUM CORNE'LII, a town of the Cifpadana, built 
by Sylla : now Imola, a city in the Romania, and territory 
of the pope. 
FORUM DOMI'TII, a town of Gallia Narbonenfis: 
probably built by Ahenobarbus Domitius, who com¬ 
manded in thofe parts : now Frontignan , or Frontigniac, in 
Languedoc, near the Mediterranean. 
FORUM FUL'VII, a town of Liguria, furnamed Va~ 
lentinum-, from which it is conjeftured that it is now Va- 
lenza, in the duchy of Milan; which is confirmed by 
Peutinger’s diffaiices. 
FORUM GALLO'RUM, a town of the Cifpadana, on 
She Via Aimilia, eight miles from Mutina, beyond the 
river Scultenna. Here Antony defeated Panfa, and was 
in his turn defeated by Hirtius: now Cafelfranco, in the 
territory of Bologna.—Another Forum Gallorutn, is a town 
of the Vafcones in the Hither Spain : now Gurrea, a fmall 
Sown of Arragon. 
FORUM JU'LIUM. There are feveral towns of this 
name; as a Forum Julium, of Gallia Narbonenfis ; or Foro- 
julium : now Frejus, or Frejules, in Provence, at the mouth 
of the Argens. Forum julium Carnorum, to the north of 
Aquileia, in the Tranfpadana : now Cividal di Friuli, for¬ 
merly Cividal d'Aufria, in the territory of Venice. 
FORUM JUTUNTO'RUM, a town of the Infubres, 
in the Tranfpadana : now Crema , capital of the Cremafco, 
in the territory of Venice. 
FORUM Ll'VII, a town of the Semnones, in the Cif- 
p^adana.: now Forli, in Romania. 
FORUM SEGUSIANO'RUM, fituated on the eaft 
fide of the Liger, in Gallia Celtica : now Feurs, on the 
Loire, in the Lionnois, capital of the territory of Forez. 
FORUM TIBE'RII, a town of the Pagus Tigurinus, 
FOR 
in Belgica, on the left or fouth fide of the Rhine; now 
Kayferjlull ; literally the tribunal of Tiberius, which he 
held there when commander in the Rhetian war. 
FORUM VULCA'NI, the Campi Phlegraei of Pliny; 
a place in Campania, encompafied with rocky eminences, 
near Puteoli, and diftant from it two miles towards Na¬ 
ples, emitting fmoke, and in fome places flame, like a 
large extenfive furnace, and yielding fulphur : now called 
Solfatara, in the Terra di Lavoro. 
To FORWAN'DER, v. a. To tvander wildly and 
wearily: 
The better part now of the lingering day 
They travelled had, when as they far etpy’d 
A weary wight forwand'ring by the way, Spenfer. 
FOR'WARD, Wa, [poppeapb, Sax.] Towards; to 
a part cr place before; onward; progreflively.—From 
fmaller things the mind of the hearers may go forward 
to the knowledge of greater, and climb up from the 
lowed to the highed things. Hooker. 
FOR'WARD, adj. Warm; earned; not backward.— 
They would that we (hould remember the poor, which 
I alfo was forward to do. Gal. ii. 10.—Ardent; eager; 
hot ; violent.—You’ll dill be too forward. Shakejpeare. 
Unfkill’d to dart the pointed fpear, 
Or lead the forward _youth to noble war. Prior. 
Ready; confident; prefumptuous: 
Old Butes’ form he took, Anehifes (quire, 
Now left to rule Afcanius by his fire ; 
And thusfalutes the boy too forward for his years. Drydcti. 
Not referved ; not over moded : 
’Tis a per’lous boy, 
Bold, quick, ingenious, forward, capable; 
He’s all the mother’s from the top to toe. Shakefpeare. 
Prpmature ; early ripe.—Short fummer lightly has a for~ 
ward fpring. Shakefpeare. —Qjnck; ready; hady.—The 
mind makes not that benefit it (hould of the information 
it receives from civil or natural hidorians, in being too 
forward or too (lowin making obfervations on the parti¬ 
cular fafts recorded in them. Locke. —Antecedent; ante- 
rior ; oppofed to poderior: 
Let us take the indant by the forward top ; 
For we are old, and on our quick’d decrees 
Th’ inaudible and noifelefs foot of time 
Steals, ere we can effeft them. Shakejpeare . 
Not behindhand ; not inferior: 
My good Camillo, 
She is as forward of her breeding, as 
She is i’ th’ rear o’ our birth. Shakefpeare. 
To FOR'WARD, v. a. To haden ; to quicken ; to ac¬ 
celerate in growth or improvement.—As we houfe hot 
country plants, as lemons, to fave them ; fo w e may houfe 
our own country plants to forward them, and make them 
come in the cold feafons. Bacon .■—To patronife ; to advance. 
FOR'WARDER, f. He who promotes any thing. 
FOR'WARDtLY, adv. Eagerly; hadily ; quickly.— 
The hidden and furprifing turns we ourfelves have felt, 
(hould not fuffer us too forwardly to admit prefumption. 
Atterbury. 
FOR'WARDNESS, f. Eagernefs; ardour; readinefs 
to aft.—Abfolutely we cannot difeommend, we cannot 
abfolutely approve either willingnefs to live, or forward- 
we/stodie. Hooker .—Qmcknefs ; readinefs. — He had fuch 
a dextrous proclivity, as his teachers were fain to redrain 
his forzvardnefs: that his brothers who were under the 
fame training, might hold pace with him. Wotton. —Earli- 
nefs ; early ripenefs.—Confidence; affurance ; want of 
modedy.—In France it is ufual to bring their children 
into company, and to cheriffi in them from their infancy 
a kind of forwardnefs and a durance. Adcdfon. 
FUR'WARDS, adv. Straight before; progreflively; 
not backwards.—The Rhodian (hip paCTed through the 
whole 
