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consentes ,
I.plur adj. [etym. dub.; prob. for consentientes; v Corss. Nachtr. 281; but, acc. to Müll., from sens, old part. form from esse], only in phrase consentes dil (gen. deum consentum, Varr L. L. 8, § 71 Müll.), in the Etrusco-Romish language of religion, the twelve superior deities, called also dii complices (six male and six female; “acc. to the lines of Ennius: Juno, Vesta, Minerva, Ceres, Diana, Venus, Mars, Mercurius, Jovi', Neptunus, Vulcanus, Apollo),who formed the common council of the gods, assembled by Jupiter, Arn. 3, 123; Enn. ap. App. de Deo Socr. p. 42 fin.; Varr. R. R. 1, 1, 4; id. L. L. 8, § 70 sq.; Inscr. Orell. 2119; Inscr. ap. Ballat. dell' Instit. 1835, p. 34; cf. Müll. Etrusk. 2, p. 81 sq.
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