CONSENTES, in the Etrusco-Roman language of religion, the twelve superior deities who formed the common council of the gods assembled by Jupiter. Their names are comprehended in the two following verses of Ennius, as quoted by Apuleius, De Deo Soeratis:—
Juno, Vesta, Minerva, Ceres, Diana, Venus, Mars,
Mercurius, Jovi, Neptunus, Vulcanus, Apollo.
The word is derived from consentio, to agree, to unite upon something accordantly. These deities were also styled Dii
Magni, and Celestes, or Nobiles, as distinguished from the inferior gods.