A classical dictionary / containing a copious account of all the proper names mentioned in ancient authors with tables of coins, weights, and measures used among the Greeks and Romans and a chronological table

by John Lemprière

Consentes, the name which the Romans gave to the 12 superior gods, the Dii majorum gentium. The word signifies as much as consentientes, that is, who consented to the deliberations of Jupiter’s council. They were 12 in number, whose names Ennius has briefly expressed in these lines:

Juno, Vesta, Minerva, Ceres, Diana, Venus, Mars,

Mercurius, Jovi, Neptunus, Vulcanus, Apollo.

Varro, de Re Rustica

Consentia, now Cosenza, a town in the country of the Brutii. Livy, bk. 3, ch. 24; bk. 28, ch. 11.—Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, bk. 1, ch. 3.

Considius Æquus, a Roman knight, &c. Tacitus.——Caius, one of Pompey’s adherents, &c. Cæsar, Civil War, bk. 2, ch. 23.

Consilinum, a town of Italy. Mela, bk. 2, ch. 4.

Constans, a son of Constantine. See: [Constantius].

Constantia, a granddaughter of the great Constantine, who married the emperor Gratian.

Constantīna, a princess, wife of the emperor Gallus.——Another of the imperial family.