Lewis & Short

2. consensus, üs, m. [consentio], agreement, accordance, unanimity, concord (class.; esp. freq. in prose).

  1. I. Prop.: numquam major vester consensus in ullā causā fuit, Cic. Phil. 4, 5, 12: quod si omnium consensus naturae vox est, id. Tusc. 1, 15, 35; Caes. B. G. 2, 28; 2, 29; 7, 4 al.: tantus senatus, Cic. Fam. 3, 3, 1; cf. Tac. A. 13, 26; Suet. Calig. 14: legionis ad rem publicam recuperandam, Cic. Phil. 3, 3, 7: optimatum, Nep. Dion, 6, 3: patrum, Tac. A. 15, 73: consilii totius Galliae, Caes. B. G. 7, 29: conspirans horum (fratrum), Cic. Lig. 12, 34: civitatis, Liv. 9, 7, 15; Cic. Quint. 5, 3: bonorum, Quint. 1, 6, 45: eruditorum, id. 10, 1, 130: grammaticorum, id. 10, 1, 53: deorum hominumque, Tac. H. 1, 15: aevi, Plin. 14, 6, 8, § 72: filiorum adversus patres, Sen. Contr 2, 9, 22: optimo in rem publicam consensu libertatem defendere, Cic. Phil. 5, 17, 46: inter malos ad bellum, Tac. H. 1, 54 fin.; cf. id. ib. 1, 26: ex communi consensu aliquid ab aliquo petere, Caes. B. G. 1, 30; so, repentino maximoque, Suet. Aug. 58: ingenti, id. Dom. 13; opp. dissensus, Claud. B. Gild. 300; Dig. 46, 3, 80.
    Absol.: aliquid apud Chattos in consensum vertit, has become a general custom, Tac. G. 31.
        1. b. Consensu, among the histt. after the Aug. per. freq. adv., unanimously, with general consent, according to the general wish, etc.: comitiorum illi habendorum, quando minimus natu sit, munus consensu inpingunt, Liv. 3, 35, 7; and 3, 36, 5; 24, 37, 11; Tac. H. 1, 16; 1, 55; Suet. Aug. 57; id. Tib. 1: cum ipsi invisum consensu imperium … interpretarentur, Liv. 3, 38, 10.
    1. B. In a bad sense, a plot, conspiracy: audacium, Cic. Sest 40. 86.
  2. II. Transf., of inanimate objects, agreement, harmony, synpathy (class.): quā ex conjunctione naturae et quasi concentu atque consensu, quam συμπαθειαν Graeci appellant, Cic. Div. 2, 14, 34; cf. id. N. D. 3, 11, 28: concentusque mirus omnium doctrinarum, id. de Or. 3, 6, 21: consensus et conspiratió virtutum, id. Fin. 5, 23, 66: duorum antecedentium, Quint. 5, 14, 6.
    1. B. A common feeling, common life: neque enim poterunt (animae et corpora) suptiliter esse Conexae neque consensus contagia fient, Lucr 3, 740.