delegi
Dictionary entries
- Entry →deligo, deligere, delegi, delectus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
pick/pluck off, cull; choose, select, levy (soldiers), enroll; conduct a levy;
sg. perf. act. ind. 1st
Examples
Aeneid V
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...insurgite remis, Hectorei socii, Troiae quos sorte suprema delegi comites; nunc illas promite viris, nunc animos, quibus..."Liber I
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...civitate donatus sum, amicos inimicosque ex vestris utilitatibus delegi, neque odio patriae (quippe proditores etiam iis quos anteponunt..."
