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concĭlĭum , ii, n. con- and root cal- of calo; Gr. καλέω; cf. clamo,
I.a collection of people, an association, gathering, union, meeting, assembly, = coetus (class.).
II. Esp.
A. An assembly for consultation, a council (in concreto; on the contrary consilium signifies the counsel in abstracto that is taken in such an assembly. The meanings, however, often pass over to each other; hence in MSS. and edd. a freq. confusion of the two words; cf. “consilium),Caes. B. G. 1, 30 fin.; cf. id. ib. 7, 1: “(opiniones), quae in senatu, quae apud populum, quae in omni coetu concilioque proferendae sunt,Cic. Fin. 2, 24, 77: “inire,Plaut. Capt. 3, 1, 33: “habere,id. Mil. 3, 1, 3: “convocare,Caes. B. G. 1, 40; 2, 10; 3, 3: “vocare,Verg. A. 10, 2: “cogere,id. ib. 11, 304: “dimittere,Caes. B. G. 1, 18; 1, 33 al.; Cic. Leg. 2, 12, 31 al.: “transferre Lutetiam,Caes. B. G. 6, 3: “in posterum diem differre,Curt. 6, 11, 9: “dare legatis,Liv. 43, 17, 7: “indicere,id. 1, 50, 4: “constituere diem concilio,Caes. B. G. 1, 30: “Messene ab Achaeis, quod concilii eorum recusaret esse, oppugnari coepta est,” i. e. a member of the Achaian league, Liv. 36, 31, 1: “concilio excesserunt,id. 32, 22, 12: sanctum Patrum, * Hor. C. 4, 5, 4 et saep.—
B. A close conjunction, i. e. union, connection (esp. freq. in Lucr.): “coetu concilioque Nil facient (primordia rerum), etc.,Lucr. 2, 920: “materiaï concilium,id. 1, 518: “in concilium coire,id. 2, 564 sq.; cf. id. 1, 772; 1, 1081; 2, 565.—Transf., a bond of union, tie: “hoc mihi tecum concilium manebit,Ov. M. 1, 710.—
2. A sexual union, coition: “corporalia,Arn. 2, 54; cf.: “primordia quae genitali Concilio possent arceri,Lucr. 1, 183. —
(β). (As an incentive to this.) The blossom of the plant iasione, Plin. 22, 22, 39, § 82.
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