Monumentum is quite as general in meaning as documentum, and shows as great variety of meaning. It is applied to a whip: vos monumentis commonefaciam _bubulis_, Stich. 63; a statue: _statuam_ volt dare, factis monumentum suis, Curc. 441; a literary record: monumenta _rerum gestarum_ oratori nota esse debent, De Or. I, 201; an action or circumstance: cum Sex. Pompeium _restituit_ civitati, clarissimum monimentum _clementiae_ suae, Phil. 5, 39; a tomb: _sepultus est_ in monumento avunculi sui, Nepos, Att. 22, 4. Sometimes the word gets precision of meaning from an appositional genitive: hoc _statuae_ monumento non eget, Phil. 9, 11; ut tu monumentum aliquod _decreti_ aut _litterarum_ tuarum relinquas, Q. fr. I, 2, 11; _sepulcri_ monumento donatus est, Nep. Dion. 10. Sometimes it is used without any suggestion of a concrete object (cf. also the third example above): nullum monumentum _laudis_ postulo praeterquam huius diei memoriam sempiternam, Cat. 3, 11, 26. Argumentum (always abstract) has the very frequent general meaning of proof, reason, argument: quid nunc? _vincon_ argumentis te non esse Sosiam?, Am. 437; nunc, huc _qua causa_ veni, argumentum eloquar, Rud. 31; _quod_ pridie noctu conclamatum esset in Caesaris castris argumenti sumebant loco non posse clam exiri B. C. 1, 67, 1. A common meaning in comedy is plot, or theme of a play (our “argument” of an epic or a drama): ne exspectetis argumentum _fabulae_, Adel. 22. Then it comes to mean the subject matter of a speech or letter: ut mihi nascatur _epistulae_ argumentum, Fam. XV, 1, 22, 2; a sign or indication: ubi lyrae, tibia et cantus, _animi_ felicia _laeti_ argumenta, sonant, Ov. M. 4, 762; reality or meaning: haec tota _fabella_ quam est sine argumento, Cael. 27; the subject of artistic representations: ex _ebore_ perfecta argumenta erant in _valvis_, Verr. II, 4, 56. Twice in Ciceronian Latin this word is defined in two of the ways mentioned: argumentum est ficta res quae tamen fieri potuit, velut argumentum comoediarum, Ad Her. 1, 8; argumentum esse rationem quae rei dubiae faciat fidem, Top. 8. Experimentum, when followed by indirect discourse, as in the following example, must mean the result of trial; _viz._, “proof”: hoc maximum est experimentum _hanc vim esse_ in cogitatione diuturna, T. 4, 56. In the plural, being the accumulation of a number of trials, it is equivalent to experientia, (experience): Metello experimentis _cognitum erat_, genus Numidarum infidum esse, Sall. Jug. 46, 3.