album

album, i, n., v. albus, III.

album, ī, n., s. albus no. II, B.

album v. albus(9)

album, (12) ī, n. , de albus, ¶ 1 blanc : (bos) maculis insignis et albo Virg. G. 3, 56, (la génisse) mouchetée à robe blanche ; sparsis pellibus albo Virg. B. 2, 41, avec des peaux semées de taches blanches ; album oculorum Cels. Med. 2, 6, 8, blanc des yeux ¶ 2 couleur blanche : columnas albo polire Liv. 40, 51, 3, donner du lustre aux colonnes avec un enduit blanc ; album in vestimentum addere Liv. 4, 25, 13, ajouter du blanc à la robe ¶ 3 tableau blanc [blanchi au plâtre, exposé publiquement, pour que tout le monde pût lire ce quʼil portait écrit] : [il y avait lʼalbum du grand pontife] Cic. de Or. 2, 52 ; Liv. 1, 32, 2 ; [lʼalbum du préteur] Gaius Inst. 4, 46 ; [dʼoù] ad album sedentes Sen. Ep. 48, 10, ceux qui sont au courant des édits des préteurs, des formules du droit, les jurisconsultes ; se ad album ac rubricas transferre Quint. 12, 3, 11, se porter à lʼétude du droit et des lois ¶ 4 liste, rôle : album senatorium Tac. Ann. 4, 42, liste des sénateurs [création dʼAuguste, cf. Dio Cassius 55, 3 ] ; album judicum Suet. Claud. 16, 2 ; Sen. Ben. 3, 7, 6, liste des juges [établie par le préteur ; cf. lecti, selecti judices ] ; album profitentium citharædorum Suet. Nero 21, 1, liste des musiciens qui voulaient concourir.

album , i. n.
粉牌。記事部。單。— oculi 目白。— ovi 蛋靑。Mittere in album 上單。列入。Eradere eum albo (abl.) 勾其名。去單。

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album ī, n

• albus, white color, whiteness: insignis albo, V.: columnas polire albo, L.— Meton., a white tablet on which thePontifex Maximus registered the principal events of the year(cf. Annales maximi): in album referre, to enter in, C., L.—A list of names: senatorium, the roll of senators, Ta.

ALBUM

ALBUM

1. a notice board or tablet on which the annual edict of the praetor was inscribed. It contained the formulae and other legal remedies which the Praetor was prepared to grant [EDICTUM]. The album was put up in a public place in Rome, so that all persons might have notice of its contents. Its actual appearance is a subject of doubt. Some think that it was a piece of white painted wood, and that the letters on it were black, except the headings (rubricae), which were red. According to others, the letters were white, inscribed on a dark ground. Any one who took away, defaced, or destroyed the album was liable to an actio albi corrupti and to a heavy penalty (Paulus, 1, 13, 3; id. 7, 9; Dig. 2, tit. 1, s. 7, 9).

Probably the word album was used for any tablet containing a public announcement. Thus Cicero informs us that the annales maximi were written on the album by the pontifex maximus (de Orat. 2.12, 52).

2. But, however this may be, it was in course of time used to signify a list of any public body; thus we find the expression album senatorium used by Tacitus (Tac. Ann. 4.42) to express the list of senators, and corresponding to the word leucoma, used by Dio Cassius (Dio Cass. 4.3). The phrase album decurionum signifies the list of decuriones whose names were entered on the album of a municipium, in the order prescribed by the lex municipalis (Dig. 50, tit. 3). Album judicum is the list or panel of judices drawn up by the magistrates, from which he was bound to make his selection (Suet. Cl. 16). [JUDEX]

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Album

(λεύκωμα). A space or patch covered with white plaster against the walls of a building, upon which public announcements or advertisements to the public were written; and thence the name is given to any sort of white tablet bearing an inscription, such as a list of the senators, the praetor's edicts, or things of a like nature (Paul. Sentent. i. t. 14; Seneca, Ep. 48; Cic. Orat. ii. 12). The annual edicts of the praetor were posted up in this way; and Cicero states that the annales maximi were posted on an album by the Pontifex Maximus (Cic. De Orat. ii. 12, 52).

Album Senatorium is the official list of the senators (Tac. Ann. iv. 42); Album Iudĭcum is the panel of the iudices. See Iudex.