Note 4 — CICERO AGAINST CATILINE

: in—consilio: “in this most venerable and respectable assembly of the whole world.” The term sanctus applied to the senate may refer to the building in which it was convened. The usual distinction between consilium and concilium, that the former means advice, plans, while the latter means an assemblage, with regard to those who compose it, does not hold good. The roots of these words are different, consilium: from con, sed, to sit: cp. sedes, solium, ἕδος; for the change of d to l: cp. δάκρυ, lacrima; olere, odere. —concilium: con, cal, to summon: cp. Kalendae, calare, καλεῖν.