deligo

1.

dē-lĭgo, lēgi, lectum, 3, v. a. [1. lego], 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, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. (de in the sense of reduction in breadth; cf. devincire), 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.