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|lshtext=<b>concentus</b>: ūs, m. [[concino]],<br /><b>I</b> sounds blending [[harmoniously]] [[together]], [[symphony]], [[harmony]], [[harmonious]] [[music]] ([[class]].).<br /><b>I</b> Prop.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> In gen.: [[ille]] [[sonus]]...qui acuta cum gravibus [[temperans]] varios [[aequabiliter]] [[concentus]] efficit, Cic. Rep. 6, 18, 18: concentum servare, id. Fin. 4, 27, 75: vocis lyraeque, Ov. M. 11, 11: avium, Cic. Leg. 1, 7, 21; Verg. G. 1, 422 (quoted in Quint. 5, 9, 16); cf.: et tepidum volucres concentibus aëra mulcent, Ov. F. 1, 155: tubarum ac cornuum, Liv. 9, 41, 17; Quint. 1, 10, 14; cf. signorum, id. 9, 4, 11 (al. congestu, id. 10, 7, 16; v. Spald., Wolf, and Zumpt, dub.): rauci, Stat. Th. 6, 227.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [[Meton]]., of a [[choir]] [[singing]] in [[harmony]], Cic. de Or. 3, 80, 196.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> In partic., a [[concordant]] [[acclamation]] of [[people]] in a [[theatre]], Plin. [[Pan]]. 2, 6; 46, 2.—<br /><b>II</b> Trop., [[concord]], [[agreement]], [[harmony]], [[unanimity]] (also [[class]].): quā ex conjunctione naturae et [[quasi]] concentu [[atque]] consensu, [[quam]] συμπάθειαν [[Graeci]] vocant, etc., Cic. Div. 2, 14, 34; cf. actionum, id. Off. 1, 40, 145; and: omnium doctrinarum, id. de Or. 3, 6, 21: virtutis, Tac. G. 3: omnium laudum, Plin. [[Pan]]. 4, 6: [[nunc]] [[age]], [[quid]] [[nostrum]] concentnm dividat audi, * Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 31.—Of the [[harmony]] of colors, Plin. 37, 6, 24, § 91; and of the blending of [[sweet]] odors, Plin. 12, 19, 42, § 86 (Sillig, [[conceptum]]).