senatus, -ūs. In speaking of this assembly, Cic. says, summum consilium orbis terrae (Phil., 7, 7, 19); publicum orbis terrae consilium (Fam., 3, 8, 4). A decree of the Senate, senatus consultum (when formally sanctioned by the tribunes of the people, and so having received the force of law); senatus auctoritas (PROP., a measure proposed, but not carried, yet sometimes used for senatus consultum); senatus or patrum decretum (a decree of the Senate investing magistrates with authority for the discharge of some special duty, or ratifying and giving force of law to decrees of the people): a sitting of the Senate, conventus senatus; senatus: to call a Senate, senatum vocare or convocare (to summon); senatum cogere (to send for individual members): to dismiss the Senate, mittere or dimittere senatum: a full Senate, senatus frequens