deligebatur
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. imperf. pass. ind. 3rd
Examples
- C
Agesilaus
Cornelius Nepos
"...decessisset; sin is virilem sexum non reliquisset, tum deligebatur, qui proximus esset propinquitate. Mortuus erat Agis rex, frater..." - P
Liber VI
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...magistratibus, ne urbs sine imperio foret in tempus deligebatur qui ius redderet ac subitis mederetur; feruntque ab Romulo..."