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• Deliberation, consultatio: consilium (the former, as act, the latter, as state): deliberatio (a mature consideration of what is to be done, what resolution is to be taken, etc.): to take counsel, consultare or deliberare de re; in consilium ire, de re; consilium habere, de re (of several persons): to take counsel with anybody, consultare or deliberare cum aliquo; aliquem in consilium vocare, or assumere, or adhibere; consilium capere una cum aliquo: to take counsel together, consilia inter se communicare: to take counsel with one’s self, se solum in consilium vocare: as to the rest, I had rather that you should lake counsel with yourself, de reliquo malo te ipsum loqui tecum (Cic., ad Div., 12, 3, quite at the end).
• Advice, consilium (general term): auctoritas (if pronounced by a person of weight): good counsel, consilium bonum or rectum: bad counsel, consilium malum; male consulta, plur. (bad counsels): prudent, wise, salutary counsel, consilium prudens, sanum, sapiens: by my counsel, me auctore; me suasore or consuasore: (The words are found in this connection and order), me auctore et consuasore, or me suasore et auctore; me suasore et impulsore: to give anybody counsel, alicui consilium dare; consilii auctorem esse alicui: to give anybody good, faithful counsel, alicui rectum, fidele consilium dare; maxime utilia alicui suadere (very salutary counsel): to ask for anybody’s counsel, aliquem consulere (if by writing, per litteras); petere consilium a aliquo; exquirere consilium alicujus: to offer one’s counsel and advice, consilii copiam praebere (e.g., of a physician, Tac., Ann., 6, 50, 2): to follow anybody’s counsel, sequi alicujus consilium; alicujus consilio uti; alicujus consilio obtemperare: I follow anybody’s counsel in anything, quod mihi dederit aliquis de aliqua re consilium, id sequor: to act according to anybody’s counsel and advice, facere de or ex alicujus consilio: to disregard anybody’s counsel, alicujus consilium spernere: to assist anybody with good counsel, alicui adesse; alicui praesto adesse; alicui non deesse.
• = Counsellor, Vid:
• Purpose, consilium: id quod volo, cupio (id, quod vult or cupit aliquis): propositum: quod specto, sequor, peto (or quod spectat, etc. aliquis). Secret counsels, consilia arcana, interiora. To declare, entrust, etc., one’s counsels to anybody, consilia sua credere alicui (Terentianus). To keep one’s own counsel in any matter, aliquid tacitum tenere, habere; secum habere; tacere, reticere; celare; occulere; occultare; occulte ferre: tacitum, tamquam mysterium, tenere.
• Prudence in planning, advising, etc., consilium (e.g., vir maximi consilii; est in aliquo satis consilii).

2. v. consiliari (mostly absolutely; but Hor., A.P., 196; ille bonis faveat et consilietur amice): consilium dare. To counsel anybody to do anything, auctorem esse alicujus rei, or with infinitive; also with ut (e.g., mihi, ut absim, vehementer auctor est; Cic., Att., 15, 5, 2): suasorem esse alicujus rei: suadere alicui aliquid, or mostly with ut: hortatorem esse alicujus rei: hortari aliquid: hortari (aliquem), ut. (The words are found in this connection and order), suadere et hortari; auctorem et suasorem esse: monere or admonere aliquem (ut, ne): censere (ut, or followed by subjunctive, without ut. SYN. in ADVICE). To counsel peace, pacis auctorem esse; pacem suadere; e. d pacem hortari: to counsel unanimity, hortari ad concordiam. I counsel you to leave off, censeo desistas. Those who will not be counselled can not be helped, *actum est de iis, qui spernunt monentes or recte praecipientes.