delegisset
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. pluperf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Liber XIII
Aulus Gellius
"...verecunde successorem illa voce sibi, non vinum delegisset. XI. Is erat e Lesbo Theophrastus, suavitate homo insigni linguae..."Liber I
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...quam privatus; tum Servio occiso, quemcumque alium generum delegisset, eundem regni heredem facturus videbatur; ob haec ipsi regi..."Liber XV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...dicionis aut subiectis re[g]i, quem imperator delegisset, hostilia faceret: pacem ex aequo utilem. ne praesentia tantum..."Liber XII
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...praecipiti facinus proderetur; si lentum et tabidum delegisset, ne admotus supremis Claudius et dolo intellecto ad amorem filii..."