delegisti
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. 2nd
Examples
In Catilinam I
Marcus Tullius Cicero from Catilinarian Orations
"...distribuisti partes Italiae, statuisti, quo quemque proficisci placeret, delegisti, quos Romae relinqueres, quos tecum educeres, discripsisti urbis partes..."Liber XXVIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Marcium ducem uobis aduersus exsultantes recenti uictoria Poenos delegistis. et sic loquor tamquam sine duce Hispaniae futurae fuerint..."