optiones
Dictionary entries
- Entry →optio, optionis:
Feminine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
option, (free) choice; power/act of choosing; right of hero to pick reward;
acc. pl.nom. pl.voc. pl. - Entry →optio, optionis:
Masculine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
adjutant, assistant, helper; junior officer chosen by centurion to assist;
acc. pl.nom. pl.voc. pl.
Examples
Liber VII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...multa dicuntur, adversus desertores scripta non potest nisi optione subuerti. VII. Item aut confessum ex utraque parte..."IV
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...virtutum favore libertas, aut obsequia peracta demum optione repetemus. non est, quod vos resistentis moveat auctoritas; neminem invenias..."Liber VIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...potissimum ex tribunis consularibus habuisse quem ex collegis optione ab senatu data socium sibi imperii deligeret. Nam populi..."