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delectos

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

Found 31 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 8.23.4: Quem quia non arbitrabatur vocatum in castra venturum, ne temptando cautiorem faceret, Gaium Volusenum Quadratum misit, qui eum per simulationem colloqui curaret interficiendum. Ad eam rem delectos idoneos ei tradit centuriones.

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.