CONSULT Copy link • CONSULTto ask advice, aliquem consulere (general term, also to consult a physician): about anything, de re: by letter, per litteras: petere consilium a aliquo: exquirere consilium alicujus (stronger terms): aliquem in consilium adhibere: rogare, interrogare aliquem sententiam (to ask anybody’s opinion, the latter of a presiding senator): *rogare, quid alicui videatur, quid censeat (general terms): to consult the books of the Sibyl, adire libros Sibyllinos: to send to Delphi to consult the oracle, mittere Delphos consultum or deliberatum: consulted, rogatus, interrogatus (asked one’s opinion). To take counsel with anybody, consiliari: in consilium ire (the latter of judges, etc.): deliberare (to take into consideration), also habere deliberationem: consulere or consultare: consilium inire or capere (to take counsel): about anything, de re: with anybody, deliberare or consultare cum aliquo: aliquem in consilium vocare or assumere: consilium capere una cum aliquo: aliquem adhibere in consilium or ad deliberationes: with anybody about anything, aliquem (or aliquid) in consilium alicujus rei adhibere: consilia inter se communicare: for the sake of consulting, consiliandi causa: one must consult about anything, consilii res est: res in deliberationem cadit: to consult nobody, se solum in consilium vocare: as to the rest you had better consult yourself, de reliquo malo te ipsum loqui tecum (Cic., ad Div. 12, 3, extr.). Have regard to; to consult anybody’s interests, consulere alicui: consulere or prospicere alicujus saluti or rationibus: to consult the interests of mankind, utilitati hominum consulere.