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deligo1

deligo1 · v. a

to choose out, to select

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Where it lives

Aristides 2 · 58.48/10k
Lysander 2 · 37.04/10k
Pelopidas 2 · 28.09/10k
Timoleon 1 · 12.08/10k
Valeriani Duo 1 · 9.82/10k
Tacitus 3 · 9.72/10k
Griphus Ternarii numeri 1 · 9.35/10k
In P. Vatinium testem interrogatio 4 · 8.91/10k
Divinatio in Q. Caecilium 5 · 8.59/10k
Annales 76 · 8.55/10k
Antoninus Geta 1 · 8.13/10k
Pro Cn. Plancio 9 · 7.73/10k

Densest 12 of 133 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. dē-lĭgo — Lewis & Short

dē-lĭgo, lēgi, lectum, 3, v. a.1. lego,

I to choose out, to select (for syn. cf.: lego, coopto, designo, eligo, seligo).

I In gen. (freq. and class.): continuo Amphitruo delegit viros primores principes, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 49: ad eas res conficiendas Orgetorix deligitur, Caes. B. G. 1, 3, 3: quodsi liber populus deliget, quibus se committat; deligetque optimum quemque, Cic. Rep. 1, 34: qui ex senatu in hoc consilium delecti estis, id. Rosc. Am. 3 fin.; so with ex, id. Agr. 2, 9, 23; id. Mil. 8, 21; id. Rep. 1, 44; Caes. B. G. 3, 18; 5, 11; Sall. J. 23, 2; Liv. 8, 33 et saep.; poet. with ab: delectos ordine ab omni centum oratores, Verg. A. 7, 152: Otho (Celsum) bello inter duces delegit, Tac. H. 1, 71: locum castris, Caes. B. G. 1, 49; 2, 17: hunc sibi locum domicilio, id. ib. 2, 29 fin. et saep.: re frumentaria comparata equitibusque delectis, id. ib. 4, 7; and so of soldiers, id. ib. 1, 48; Sall. J. 46, 7; 49, 1 al.: delecti Latio et Laurentibus agris, Verg. A. 11, 431: melimela ad lunam delecta, Hor. S. 2, 8, 32.—Poet.: altaque mortali deligere astra manu, Prop. 2, 32, 50 (3, 30, 50 M. dub.; al. deripere).—

II In partic.

A Of fruits, to gather, pick off: oleam, Cato R. R. 144, 1: uvam, ib. 112, 2: fructum, Col. 5, 10, 10.—

B With the accessory idea of removal to a distance, to choose out and send or take away (rare): amentem ex aedibus, Plaut. Asin. 3, 3, 42: senes ac fessas aequore matres, Verg. A. 5, 717.

2. dē-lĭgo — Lewis & Short

dē-lĭgo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. (de in the sense of reduction in breadth; cf. devincire),

I to bind or tie together; to bind up, to bind fast (good prose): homini rostrum deliges, Plaut. Men. 1, 1, 13: brachium superimposito penicillo, Cels. 2, 10 fin.: vulnus, Quint. 2, 17, 9; 2, 21, 17; cf.: deligatus et plurimis medicamentis delibutus, id. 11, 3, 129: veretra, Suet. Tib. 62 et saep.: hominem proripi atque in foro medio nudari ac deligari et virgas expediri jubet, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 62; cf. id. ib. 2, 4, 40: sarmentis circum cornua boum deligatis, Quint. 2, 17, 19: naviculam ad ripam, Caes. B. G. 1, 53, 3; so, naves ad ancoras, id. ib. 4, 29; and, naves ad terram, id. B. C. 3, 39: epistolam ad amentum, id. B. G. 5, 48, 5: ad patibulos deligantur, cruci defiguntur, Licinius ap. Non. 221, 11; cf.: aliquem ad palum, Liv. 2, 5; 8, 7: viros ac feminas ad stipitem, Suet. Ner. 29 al.: alterius collo ascopera deligata, id. ib. 45.

In the wild

deligandi Celsus, De Medicina 7.27
deligebat Julius Caesar, De bello Gallico 7.31.1
delectis Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 43-44 - 44 p15
deliget Cicero, De Republica 1.51
deligens Phaedrus, Fabulae Aesopiae 3.prologus.40
delectu Julius Caesar, De bello Gallico 8.54.2

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