CONSEQUENCE Copy link • CONSEQUENCEthe following of one thing after another, consecutio: consequentia (e.g., eventorum consequentia, Cic.). Of cause and effect, consecutio (the consequence, as effect; philosophical technical term): exitus (issue): eventus (effect): quod ex aliqua re evenit, evenit, or eventurum est, or quae ex aliqua, re eveniunt, evenerunt, eventura sunt (Auct., ad Her., 4, 55, near the beginning): consequences and circumstances, res consequentes et circumstantes: it is the unhappy consequence of etc., culpa est in aliqua re: vitium est alicujus rei (e.g., you maintain it to be the unhappy consequence of human error, in hominum vitiis ais esse culpam; Cic., N.D., 3, 31, near the beginning): it is the lamentable consequence of too great abundance, copiae vitium est (Quint., 10, 1, 62: Herzog., p. 110): to have such or such a consequence, consecutionem alicujus rei afferre: consequitur aliquid aliquam rem: manat aliquid ex re (of errors, sins, etc; e.g., peccata ex vitiis manant): what other consequence can result from the change of the camp, but etc.? castrorum mutatio quid habet, nisi etc.? (Caes., B.G., 2, 31, page, near the beginning): the natural consequence was that etc., id hujus modi erat, ut, etc.: the consequence of it was that, etc., aliquo factum est, ut, etc.: to have important consequences, magni esse momenti: to have bad consequences, male evenire: secus cadit res, ac speraverat aliquis: to have good consequences, bene evenire, for anybody, alicui evenire ex sententia: the consequences of anything last during one’s whole life, omnis vita perturbatur aliqua re (e.g., errore, inscientia (Vid: Cic., Fin., 1, 14, near the beginning): to judge of measures by their consequences, consilia eventis ponderare: to fear the consequences of anything, quorsum aliquid casurum, or evasurum, or erupturum sit, vereri: to dread the consequences, quorsum res eruptura sit, horrere: to calculate the consequences of anything, rationem habere alicujus rei (Vid: Caes., B.G., 1, 13, Herzog): not to know the consequences of anything, *nescire ea, quae ex aliqua re eventura sunt (of consequences that will follow): not to know what the consequences of anything will be, *nescire quid ex aliqua re eventurum sit (of consequences that may follow): in consequence of, causa alicujus rei (e.g., timoris causa, Caes., B.C., 1, 33): ex (e.g., ex divitiis juventutem luxuria atque avaritia invasere, Sall., Cat., 12, 2): prae (of a preventive cause; after a negative; e.g., prae strepitu vix audiri): [Vid: “on account of,” under ACCOUNT.] Moment, importance; momentum, pondus; discrimen (weight, importance): to be of much consequence, magni momenti esse; magni referre: a matter of great consequence, res gravissima, or summa, or maxima: res magni momenti or discriminis: to be of consequence, auctoritate valere or posse (of persons); vim habere or exercere (of persons and things): of consequence (of things), gravis (opposed to levis, of no consequence): magnus: grandis: luculentus: a town of consequence, urbs magna, opulenta, florens: a state of consequence, civitas ampla et florens or gravis et opulenta (opposed to civitas exigua et infirma, of no consequence): to be a person of consequence, gravem personam sustinere: to suffer a loss of some consequence, magnam facere jacturam: to be of no consequence nullo esse numero: nullum numerum obtinere: nihil posse or valere (of persons): leve esse: nullius momenti esse (of things): that is of no consequence, *haec sunt levia or inania: that very thing is of great consequence, rnagni refert id ipsum: to know something of consequence, aliquid, quod referret, scire: it is of no consequence to me, mea minime refert: to think anything a matter of no consequence, aliquid parvi facere; aliquid in levi habere, in auctoritate gravis; auctoritate or dignitate praeditus, opibus or gratia florens (influential): vir illustris, nobilis, generis nobilitate clarus (by birth or rank): vir potens (by power): a man of no consequence, homo neque honore neque nomine illustris (Cic.); homo ignobilis, obscurus. [Vid: also, IMPORTANCE.] In logic (1), the last proposition of a syllogism, conclusio: complexio: (2), conclusion from premises, conclusio. Does not this consequence necessarily follow? satisne hoc conclusum videtur? I deny the consequence; or, that consequence does not follow, id inde effici nequit: id inde non conficitur or sequitur. If the premiss can not be dented, the consequence is necessary, si quod primum in connexo necessarium est, fit etiam quod consequitur necessarium (Cic.).