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  • “O, you mean juris-consultus — Ictus is an abbreviation for juris-consultus.”

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

  • Qui postquam Romam adventabant, [167] senatus a Bestia consultus est, placeretne legatos

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • He had been appointed by the senatus consultus of our University before his very extraordinary demonstration in politics.

    Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick 1910

  • Mr. Langton asked Johnson as to the propriety of sapientiae consultus.

    Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • 'Though consultus was primarily an adjective, like amicus it came to be used as a substantive.

    Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • In beautiful but untranslatable language he claims that he was "non magis iuris consultus, quam iustitiae," -- an encomium which all great lawyers might well envy; he aimed rather at enabling men to be rid of litigation than at encouraging them to engage in it.

    Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero W. Warde Fowler 1884

  • It was not necessary that the pupil should himself intend to become a _consultus_; it was enough that he desired to acquire the knowledge for public purposes, although, of course, it required great interest to procure for a young man so high a privilege.

    The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879

  • Many of them were imprisoned, and a hundred and thirty were transported by a simple senatus - consultus asked and obtained during the night.

    History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 Francois-Auguste Mignet 1840

  • In pursuance of this resolution, on the 6th of May, 1802, an organic senatus - consultus appointed Bonaparte consul for an additional period of ten years.

    History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 Francois-Auguste Mignet 1840

  • This revolution was complete by adapting to the consulship for life, by a simple senatus-consultus, the constitution, already sufficiently despotic, of the temporary consulship.

    History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 Francois-Auguste Mignet 1840

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