delecti

delecti is a Latin form of deligo, meaning “choose, select; (delectus) chosen; levy”. It is the perfect passive participle nominative plural masculine.

Found 37 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7.76.4: Commio Atrebati, Viridomaro et Eporedorigi Aeduis, Vercassivellauno Arverno, consobrino Vercingetorigis, summa imperi traditur. His delecti ex civitatibus attribuuntur, quorum consilio bellum administraretur.

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 1.45: … qui ostium Ponti viderunt et eas angustias, per quas penetravit ea quae est nominata Argó, quia Argivi ín ea delectí viri Vectí petebant péllem inauratam árietis, aut i qui Oceani freta illa viderunt, Europam Libyamque rapax u …

Sallust, Catilinae Coniuratio 6: … sque dandis quam accipiundis beneficiis amicitias parabant. Imperium legitumum, nomen imperi regium habebant. Delecti, quibus corpus annis infirmum, ingenium sapientia validum erat, rei publicae consultabant; hi vel aetate vel …

All forms of deligo (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.