LAT
delego
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Lewis Short
dē-lēgo, āvi, ātum, 1
* V. a., to send, assign, dispatch, delegate a person to any place, person or business; to assign, confide, commit, intrust any thing to a person (for attention, care, protection, etc.); to charge a person with a business; to lay or impose upon a person any charge, order, business, command, etc., esp. of that which one prefers not to attend to in person (good prose; not in Caes.; perh. not in Cic.; v. the doubtful passage Cic. Fam. 7, 5, 2, and Orell. ad loc.).
* In gen.
* With personal objects: si cui fautores delegatos viderint, etc.,Plaut. Am. prol. 67 and 83: aliquem in Tullianum,Liv. 29, 22 fin.: infantem ancillis ac nutricibus,Tac. G. 20; cf. id. Or. 29: Cassium Longinum occidendum delegaverat,Suet. Calig. 57: studiosos Catonis ad illud volumen delegamus,refer to,Nep. Cato 3 fin.: ad senatum,Liv. 5, 20 fin.
* In partic., t. t. in the lang. of business, to assign, transfer, make over, either one who is to pay a debt or the debt itself: delegare est vice sua alium reum dare creditori, vel cui jusserit, Dig. 46, 2, 11: debitorem,ib. 12: debitores nobis deos,Sen. Ben. 4, 11; cf.: delegabo te ad Epicurum, ab illo fiet numeratio,id. Ep. 18, 14: nomen paterni debitoris,Dig. 37, 6, 1.— Absol.: Quinto delegabo, si quid aeri meo alieno superabit,Cic. Att. 13, 46, 3: Balbi regia condicio est delegandi,id. ib. 12, 12: terram,to assign,Vulg. 3 Reg. 11, 18.
* Trop., to attribute, impute, ascribe to: si hoc crimen optimis nominibus delegare possumus,Cic. Font. 4, 8; so, causam peccati mortuis,Hirt. B. G. 8, 22, 2: scelera ipsa aliis,Tac. A. 13, 43: omne rei bene aut secus gestae in Etruria decus dedecusque ad Volumnium,Liv. 10, 19; cf.: servati consulis decus ad servum,id. 21, 46 fin.
* V. a., to send, assign, dispatch, delegate a person to any place, person or business; to assign, confide, commit, intrust any thing to a person (for attention, care, protection, etc.); to charge a person with a business; to lay or impose upon a person any charge, order, business, command, etc., esp. of that which one prefers not to attend to in person (good prose; not in Caes.; perh. not in Cic.; v. the doubtful passage Cic. Fam. 7, 5, 2, and Orell. ad loc.).
* In gen.
* With personal objects: si cui fautores delegatos viderint, etc.,Plaut. Am. prol. 67 and 83: aliquem in Tullianum,Liv. 29, 22 fin.: infantem ancillis ac nutricibus,Tac. G. 20; cf. id. Or. 29: Cassium Longinum occidendum delegaverat,Suet. Calig. 57: studiosos Catonis ad illud volumen delegamus,refer to,Nep. Cato 3 fin.: ad senatum,Liv. 5, 20 fin.
* In partic., t. t. in the lang. of business, to assign, transfer, make over, either one who is to pay a debt or the debt itself: delegare est vice sua alium reum dare creditori, vel cui jusserit, Dig. 46, 2, 11: debitorem,ib. 12: debitores nobis deos,Sen. Ben. 4, 11; cf.: delegabo te ad Epicurum, ab illo fiet numeratio,id. Ep. 18, 14: nomen paterni debitoris,Dig. 37, 6, 1.— Absol.: Quinto delegabo, si quid aeri meo alieno superabit,Cic. Att. 13, 46, 3: Balbi regia condicio est delegandi,id. ib. 12, 12: terram,to assign,Vulg. 3 Reg. 11, 18.
* Trop., to attribute, impute, ascribe to: si hoc crimen optimis nominibus delegare possumus,Cic. Font. 4, 8; so, causam peccati mortuis,Hirt. B. G. 8, 22, 2: scelera ipsa aliis,Tac. A. 13, 43: omne rei bene aut secus gestae in Etruria decus dedecusque ad Volumnium,Liv. 10, 19; cf.: servati consulis decus ad servum,id. 21, 46 fin.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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