deligendis
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;
abl. pl. fut. pass. part.dat. pl. fut. pass. part.
Examples
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Liber XXIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...stantibus uobis in acie armatis repente deligendi duo imperatores essent quorum ductu atque auspicio dimicaretis, hodie quoque consules..." - P
Liber XI
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...ostendit ab L. Bruto repetita. mansitque consulibus potestas deligendi, donec cum quoque honorem populus mandaret. creatique primum Valerius..." - G
Liber I
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...pluribus cogitanti, hic quoque in condicionibus deligendis ponendus est calculus. Tu fortasse me putes indulsisse amori meo, supraque..."