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• consult:

I. To ask advice:

1. consŭlo, ui, sultum, 3 (with acc., to take any one's opinion: with dat., to consult his interests): nor do I c. you about that, nec te id (cf. L. G. § 253) consulo, Cic.: to c. Apollo on the subject, Apollinem de re c., Cic.: to c. one's glass, speculum suum c., Ov. Esp. of lawyers: those who are usually c.'d about civil law, ii qui de jure civili consuli solent, Cic.: also of deliberative assemblies: to c. the senate respecting the treaty, senatum de foedere c., Sall.: Cic.
2. consĭlior, 1 (rare): usu. absol.; to take counsel: Cic.: Caes.
3. rĕfĕro, tŭli, lātum, 3 (with ad: esp. of consulting the senate: the matter about which with de): concerning which the consuls will, I hope, c. the. senate, de quo consules spero ad senatum relaturos, Cic.: also of consulting a deity: I am of opinion that we ought to c. Apollo respecting obscure and uncertain things, de rebus et obscuris et incertis ad Apollinem censeo referendum, Cic. (but in this sense usu. consulo: v. supr.).
4. ădeo, īvĭ and ĭi, ĭtum, 4: esp. in phr., to c. the Sibylline books, adire libros Sibyllinos, Liv.

II. To be engaged in consultation (intr.):

1. dēlībĕro, 1: v. to deliberate.
2. consĭlior, 1 (rare): they conversed for the purpose of c.ing, consiliandi causa collocuti sunt, Caes.: Cic.: Hor.
3. consulto, 1: they examine or c. whether that about which they are considering is or is not beneficial, anquirunt aut c. conducat id necne de quo deliberant, Cic. Join: deliberare et consultare: Cic. Also expr. by consilium capere, etc.: v. counsel.

III. To c. for the interests of:

1. consŭlo, 3 (with dat.): they c. the interests of a part of the citizens, the others they neglect, parti civium c., partem negligunt, Cic.: I was c.ing my own dignity, dignitati meae consulebam, Cic.: to c. the interests of the state as much as one's own, reipublicae juxta ac sibi c., Sall.
2. servio, 4 (somewhat stronger: also inservio): to c. any one's convenience, commodis alicujus s., Cic.: to c. brevity, brevitati s., Cic.: v. to attend to (6, 7).
3. prospĭcio, 3: i. e. to look out for, have regard to: with dat.: Cic.: v. to provide.

• CONSULT

to 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.

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