Eligo, éligis, pen. cor. elégi, pen. prod. electum, elígere. Cic.To choose: to elect: to pike oute.Optionem alicui facere vt eligat vtrum velit.Cic.De decem Mylesiorum nauibus electum.Cic.De tribus eligere quem velis.Cic.Elegit ex multis Isocratis libris triginta fortasse versus.Cic.Ad illud munus electi.Cic.Chosen to.Populus elegit sibi in principem Octauium. Ci. The people choose Octauins to be their prince.Elegit id in certamÊ nobilissimā è prostitutis ancillã. Plin. -puguandi tempora mecum Eligit Atrides.Ouid.Leuius malum eligendum.Cic.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ē-lĭgo, lēgi, lectum, 3, v. a. [lĕgo], to pick out, choose, elect (class.; esp. in the trop. sense; cf.: coöpto, designo, deligo, seligo): pedes e capite et e collo pullorum, Varr. R. R. 3, 9, 14: uvam ad edendum (with legere), id. ib. 1, 54, 2: herbas,
to pluck up
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to weed out
, id. ib. 1, 47; Col. 4, 5; cf. trop., Cic. Tusc. 3, 34, 83 and 84: ex malis minima, Cic. Off. 3, 1, 3: ut de tribus Antoniis eligas quem velis, id. Phil. 10, 2, 5: a multis commodissimum quodque, id. Inv. 2, 2, 5: ut in comparando difficile ad eligendum sit, quid maxime velis, id. Rep. 1, 35 fin. et saep.—Absol., to choose correctly, make a proper selection: haud semper errat fama; aliquando et elegit, Tac. Agr. 9 fin.—Hence, ēlectus, a, um, P. a.I. In gen., picked, selected; select, choice, excellent: par columbarum, Petr. 85, 6: viri electissimi civitatis, Cic. Quint. 2: pugiles, Suet. Calig. 18: quisque, id. ib. 49: electissima verba, Cic. Fin. 3, 7 fin. Madv. N. cr.;Auct. Her. 4, 26, 36; cf.: electius verbum, id. ib.; scripta, Cat. 36, 6: res, Petr. 36, 4 et saep.—In the neutr. subst.: ēlecta, ōrum, selections, Plin. Ep. 3, 5, 17.—Adv.: ēlecte choicely, Cic. Inv. 1, 30, 49.—Comp., Gell. 18, 7, 2.—II. In eccl. Lat., chosen of God, elected to be saved, Vulg. Col. 3, 12 et saep.
