the name given to the bills which were put up amongst the Romans, giving public notice of the time when a show of gladiators would be exhibited, with the number of the combatants, and other circumstances. This was called *munus pronunciare* or *proponere*. The *libelli* or bills were sometimes termed *edita*. These public notices were given by the person who intended to oblige the people with a show, and were frequently attended with pictures representing the engagement of some celebrated gladiators. There was also the *famosus libellus*, or defamatory libel. Seneca calls them *contumeliosi libelli*, infamous rhymes, which, by a Roman ordinance, were punishable with death. *Libellus* in the civil law also signifies the declaration, or state of the prosecutor's charge against the defendant; and it has the same signification in the English spiritual courts.