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
Liber XXIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...stantibus uobis in acie armatis repente deligendi duo imperatores essent quorum ductu atque auspicio dimicaretis, hodie quoque consules..."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..."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..."