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consultātĭo , ōnis, f. 2. consulto.
I. A mature deliberation, consideration, consultation.
A. In gen. (rare but class.).
2. Concr., a subject of consultation: “copiose de consultationibus suis disputare,Cic. Top. 17, 66. —
B. Esp., rhet. t. t.
1. A case proposed for decision, an inquiry concerning a case in law: “consultationem proponere,Quint. 3, 8, 59: “cum apud C. Caesarem consultatio de poenā Theodoti proponitur,id. 3, 8, 55; Dig. 31, 35.—
2. A general inquiry upon a subject, a consideration of a principle, = quaestio infinita (opp.: “definita controversia certis temporibus ac reis),Cic. de Or. 3, 28, 109: “sive in infinitis consultationibus disceptatur, sive in iis causis quae in civitate et forensi disceptatione versantur,id. ib. 3, 29, 111; id. Part. Or. 1, 4; id. Off. 3, 7, 33; id Att. 9, 4, 1 sqq.—
II. An asking of advice, inquiry (rare).
A. Abstr.: “tuas litteras exspecto, ut sciam, quid respondeant consultationi meae,Cic. Att. 8, 4, 3: “honesta consultatio, non expedita sententia,Plin. Ep. 7, 18, 1: “redeunt illi sermones, illae consultationes,id. ib. 8, 23, 6.—So of the questioning of the emperor by the prætor, an asking for instructions: “visa est enim mihi res digna consultatione,Plin. Ep. 10, 96 (97), 9; Dig. 4, 4, 11.—
B. Concr., the inquiry addressed to an oracle (transl. of πεῦσις), Macr. S. 1, 17, 50.—Plur.: “de consultationibus in Aponi fontem talos aureos jacere,Suet. Tib. 14.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (17):
    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 8.4.3
    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 9.4.1
    • Suetonius, Nero, 41
    • Cicero, On Oratory, 2.33
    • Cicero, On Oratory, 3.28
    • Suetonius, Tiberius, 14
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 8.23
    • Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, 7.18.1
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 2, 3.5
    • Cicero, De Officiis, 3.12
    • Cicero, De Officiis, 3.7
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 3, 8.55
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 3, 8.59
    • Sallust, Bellum Iugurthinum, 27
    • Cicero, Partitiones Oratoriae, 1.4
    • Cicero, Topica, 17.66
    • Cicero, De Inventione, 2.25
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