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|lshtext=<b>dēlectus</b>: a, um, Part., from 1. [[deligo]].<br /><b>dēlectus</b>: or dīlectus (so [[often]] in [[best]] MSS., and [[adopted]] by Halm in Quint. and Cic., Weissenb. in Liv., Dietsch in Sall., and by Brambach, etc.; [[but]] Bait. and Kay. in Cic., Dinter and Nipperdey in Caes., [[delectus]]), ūs, m. 1. [[deligo]],<br /><b>I</b> a choosing or picking [[out]], a selecting; a [[selection]], [[choice]], [[distinction]] (freq. and [[class]].).<br /><b>I</b> In gen.: [[utrimque]] [[tibi]] [[nunc]] dilectum para, Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 157: mihi [[quidem]] [[etiam]] lautius videtur, [[quod]] eligitur, et ad [[quod]] [[delectus]] adhibetur, Cic. Fin. 5, 30, 90: earum rerum hic tenetur a sapiente [[delectus]], ut, etc. ([[shortly]] [[before]]: cum soluta nobis est eligendi [[optio]]), id. ib. 1, 10, 33: in hoc verborum genere propriorum [[delectus]] est [[quidam]] habendus, id. de Or. 3, 37, 150; so, verborum, Caes. ap. Cic. Brut. 72, 253; Quint. 12, 9, 6; cf.: rerum verborumque agendus, id. 10, 3, 5: verbis delectum adhibere, Tac. Or. 22: cujus (εὐφωνίας) in eo [[dilectus]] est, ut, etc., Quint. 1, 5, 4: judicum, Cic. Phil. 5, 5, 13: omnium rerum delectum [[atque]] [[discrimen]] [[pecunia]] sustulisset, id. Verr. 2, 2, 50; so [[with]] [[discrimen]], id. Fin. 4, 25, 69: [[magnus]] hominum et dignitatum, id. Rep. 1, 34: dignitatis, id. Clu. 46; id. Off. 1, 14, 45: acceptorum beneficiorum sunt [[delectus]] habendi, id. ib. 1, 15, 49: non delectu [[aliquo]] aut [[sapientia]] ducitur ad judicandum, id. Planc. 4: [[sine]] ullo delectu, [[sine]] populi Rom. notione, [[sine]] judicio [[senatus]], id. Agr. 2, 21 fin.; cf. Ov. M. 10, 325; and on the [[contrary]], cum delectu, [[making]] a [[selection]], Plin. 7, 53, 54, § 180; Plin. Ep. 2, 13, 18.—<br /><b>II</b> Milit. t. t., a [[levy]], a recruiting: per legatos delectum habere, Caes. B. G. 6, 1; so, delectum habere, a [[standing]] [[phrase]] for recruiting, id. ib. 7, 1; id. B. C. 1, 2; 1, 6; Cic. Phil. 5, 12; Sall. C. 36, 3; Liv. 2, 28; Tac. A. 13, 35 al.; cf. the postAug. agere, Quint. 12, 3, 5; Plin. 7, 29, 30, § 107; Tac. H. 2, 16; Suet. Calig. 43 al.: conficere, Liv. 25, 5: quas (legiones) ex [[novo]] delectu confecerat, Caes. B. C. 1, 25: [[exercitus]] superbissimo delectu [[collectus]], Cic. Prov. Cons. 2 fin.: [[provincialis]], made in the [[province]], [[provincial]], id. Fam. 15, 1 fin.: in bella, Plin. 6, 19, 22, § 66.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> [[Meton]]. (abstr. pro concreto), the men levied, a [[levy]]: e Britannico delectu [[octo]] milia sibi adjunxit, Tac. H. 2, 57.