consultationem+proponere+q

consultātĭo, ōnis, f. [2. consulto].

A mature deliberation, consideration, consultation.

In gen. (rare but class.).

Abstr., * Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 28; Cic. de Or. 2, 33, 142; id. Inv. 2, 25, 76 fin.; id. Off. 3, 12, 50; Suet. Ner. 41 al.—With ne:

per aliquot dies tenuit ea consultatio, ne non reddita bona belli causā... essent,

Liv. 2, 3, 5. —In plur., Sall. J. 27, 2.—

Concr., a subject of consultation:

copiose de consultationibus suis disputare,

Cic. Top. 17, 66. —

Esp., rhet. t. t.

A case proposed for decision, an inquiry concerning a case in law:

consultationem proponere,

Quint. 3, 8, 59:

cum apud C. Caesarem consultatio de poenā Theodoti proponitur,

id. 3, 8, 55; Dig. 31, 35.—

A general inquiry upon a subject, a consideration of a principle, = quaestio infinita (opp.:

definita controversia certis temporibus ac reis),

Cic. de Or. 3, 28, 109:

sive in infinitis consultationibus disceptatur, sive in iis causis quae in civitate et forensi disceptatione versantur,

id. ib. 3, 29, 111; id. Part. Or. 1, 4; id. Off. 3, 7, 33; id Att. 9, 4, 1 sqq.—

An asking of advice, inquiry (rare).

Abstr.:

tuas litteras exspecto, ut sciam, quid respondeant consultationi meae,

Cic. Att. 8, 4, 3:

honesta consultatio, non expedita sententia,

Plin. Ep. 7, 18, 1:

redeunt illi sermones, illae consultationes,

id. ib. 8, 23, 6.—So of the questioning of the emperor by the prætor, an asking for instructions:

visa est enim mihi res digna consultatione,

Plin. Ep. 10, 96 (97), 9; Dig. 4, 4, 11.—

Concr., the inquiry addressed to an oracle (transl. of peusis), Macr. S. 1, 17, 50.— Plur.:

de consultationibus in Aponi fontem talos aureos jacere,

Suet. Tib. 14.