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|lshtext=<b>consessus</b>: ūs, m. [[consido]].<br /><b>I</b> Abstr., a [[sitting]] [[together]] or [[with]] ([[only]] post-class.): [[communis]] ei, Lampr. Alex. Sev. 4: consessum alicui offerre, the permission to [[sit]] [[with]] one, id. ib. 18; so of permission to [[sit]]: liberum habere, Cod. Th. 6, 26, 16.—Far [[more]] freq. and [[class]]. in [[prose]] and [[poetry]],<br /><b>II</b> Concr., a [[collection]] of persons [[sitting]] [[together]], an [[assembly]] (in courts of [[justice]], the [[theatre]]; etc.), Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 7, § 19; id. Mil. 1, 1; id. Planc. 1, 2; id. Quint. 3, 12 al.; * Suet. Aug. 44; Tac. A. 13, 54 al.; Lucr. 4, 76; Verg. A. 5, 340; 5, 577: quibus cum a [[cuncto]] consessu [[plausus]] esset [[multiplex]] [[datus]], Cic. Sen. 18, 64: in [[ludo]] talario, id. Att. 1, 16, 3: ludorum gladiatorumque, id. Sest. 50, 106; id. Har. Resp. 11, 22; cf. in plur.: theatrales gladiatoriique, id. ib. 54, 115.