concilium

concĭlĭum, ii, n. [con- and root cal- of calo; Gr. kaleô; cf. clamo], a collection of people, an association, gathering, union, meeting, assembly, = coetus (class.).

I.

In gen.:

videre ambas in uno concilio,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 96; id. Clst. 4, 2, 33:

Camenarum cum Egeria,

Liv. 1, 21, 3:

ab sede piorum, coetu concilioque abigi,

id. 2, 38, 4:

pastorum,

Cic. Off. 3, 9, 38:

deorum,

id. Tusc. 1, 30, 72; id. Div. 1, 24, 49; cf.

caelestium,

id. Off. 3, 5, 25:

divinum animorum,

id. Sen. 23, 84:

concilia coetusque hominum jure sociati, quae civitates appellantur,

id. Rep. 6, 13, 13:

(Cyclopum) Concilium horrendum,

Verg. A. 3, 679:

amoena piorum Concilia,

id. ib. 5, 735:

Musarum,

Stat. Th. 6, 355:

mulierum,

id. ib. 3, 178.— Poet. of animals:

inque ferarum Concilio medius sedebat,

Ov. M. 10, 144;

and trop.: tamquam meretricem in matronarum coetum, sic voluptatem in virtutum concilium adducere,

id. Fin. 2, 4, 12.—

II.

Esp.

A.

An assembly for consultation, a council (in concreto; on the contrary consilium signifies [p. 400] 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.