senate
senate
subs.
P. and V. βουλή, ἡ.
Senate house: P. and V. βουλευτήριον, τό.
Spartan senate: P. and V. γερουσία, ἡ.
Resolution of the senate: P. προβούλευμα, τό.
subs.
P. and V. βουλή, ἡ.
Senate house: P. and V. βουλευτήριον, τό.
Spartan senate: P. and V. γερουσία, ἡ.
Resolution of the senate: P. προβούλευμα, τό.
SENATE
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
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
senate (subs.):
1. sĕnātus, ūs, m. (lit. the council of the elders): unless these qualities (wisdom, reason, determination) had been in old men, our ancestors would not have given their supreme council the name of s., quae (consilium, ratio, sententia) nisi essent in senibus, non summum concilium majores nostri appellassent s., Cic. de Sen. 6, 19: to summon a s., senatum vocare, Liv. 3, 38; s. convocare, Cic. Sull. 23, 65: a decree of the s., senatus consultum (S. C.), Cic. Fam. 8, 8, 3: to hold a meeting of the s., senatum habere, Cic. Fam. 1, 4, ad init.: to dismiss the s., s. dimittere, ib. 1, 42: to grant an audience of the s. to any one, senatum dare alicui, id. Q. Fr. 2, 12: a full meeting of the s., frequens s., id. de Or. 3, 25: the s. of the Aedui, Aeduorum s., Caes. B. G. 1, 31.
2. patres (pl. used collectively): the decrees of the s., patrum consulta, Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 41.
3. meton.: cūria (strictly, the building, the senate house): in a crowded meeting of the s., frequenti curia, Liv. 2, 23: Suet.: to be present at a meeting of the s., curiae interesse, Suet. Aug. 38.
1. sĕnātus, ūs, m. (lit. the council of the elders): unless these qualities (wisdom, reason, determination) had been in old men, our ancestors would not have given their supreme council the name of s., quae (consilium, ratio, sententia) nisi essent in senibus, non summum concilium majores nostri appellassent s., Cic. de Sen. 6, 19: to summon a s., senatum vocare, Liv. 3, 38; s. convocare, Cic. Sull. 23, 65: a decree of the s., senatus consultum (S. C.), Cic. Fam. 8, 8, 3: to hold a meeting of the s., senatum habere, Cic. Fam. 1, 4, ad init.: to dismiss the s., s. dimittere, ib. 1, 42: to grant an audience of the s. to any one, senatum dare alicui, id. Q. Fr. 2, 12: a full meeting of the s., frequens s., id. de Or. 3, 25: the s. of the Aedui, Aeduorum s., Caes. B. G. 1, 31.
2. patres (pl. used collectively): the decrees of the s., patrum consulta, Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 41.
3. meton.: cūria (strictly, the building, the senate house): in a crowded meeting of the s., frequenti curia, Liv. 2, 23: Suet.: to be present at a meeting of the s., curiae interesse, Suet. Aug. 38.
βουλή
will, determination; council, senate
a counter-senate
will, determination; council, senate
appearing fewer than 50 times
ἀντισύγκλητοςa counter-senate
senate
Senate of Sparta
- its power broken by Cleomenes: Paus. 2.9.1
- composed of twenty-eight members: Paus. 3.5.2
- Council House of Spartan senate: Paus. 3.11.2
- Roman: Paus. 7.7.9, Paus. 7.9.1-6, Paus. 7.11.3-5, Paus. 7.14.1