A.advice, counsel, esp. with purposes of evil, Ev.Matt.12.14, Ev.Marc.3.6.
II. a council of advisors or assessors, PTeb.286.15 (ii A.D.), Plu.Luc.26; esp. freq. of the consilium of a Roman magistrate, governor, etc., SIG684.11 (Dyme, ii B.C.), al., Supp.Epigr.2.265 (Delph., ii B.C.), Act.Ap.25.12, Plu.Rom.14, 2.196e, etc.