Delectus

Delectus fit omnium puellarum toto regno forma praestantiorum (saith Jovius) pro imperatore; et quas ille linquit, nobiles habent; they press and muster up wenches as we do soldiers, and have their choice of the rarest beauties their countries can afford, and yet all this cannot keep them from adultery, incest, sodomy, buggery, and such prodigious lusts.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Greek Delectus, any more than twenty thousand others of us who have had a “classical education.”

Mrs. Perkins's Ball 2006

English language, which are valuable in spite of their eccentricities, include: -- _Se Gefylsta: an Anglo-Saxon Delectus_ (1849); _A Grammar and

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various

"I caught Lucy pasting the leaves of my _Delectus_ together," murmured

Jack of Both Sides The Story of a School War Florence Coombe

"I don't mean to look," said Alfred, "I know it's in the Delectus."

Louis' School Days A Story for Boys

With those of the Lower Third Form came a note from Mr Prichard, saying that he had sent with the papers a book -- a Delectus translation ( 'Crib' as you would call it) -- which he had found in Campbell's possession during the examination.

Wilton School or, Harry Campbell's Revenge Fred E. Weatherly

The Delectus consists of Short pieces, on various subjects, with extracts from Anglo-Saxon History and the Saxon

Notes and Queries, Number 30, May 25, 1850 Various

Tom Tulliver, being abundant in no form of speech, did not use any metaphor to declare his views as to the nature of Latin; he never called it an instrument of torture; and it was not until he had got on some way in the next half-year, and in the Delectus, that he was advanced enough to call it a “bore” and “beastly stuff.

I. Tom’s “First Half”. Book II—School-Time 1917

But she found the stock unaccountably shrunk down to the few old ones which had been well thumbed, —the Latin Dictionary and Grammar, a Delectus, a torn Eutropius, the well-worn Virgil, Aldrich’s Logic, and the exasperating Euclid.

III. A Voice from the Past. Book IV—The Valley of Humiliation 1917

The girls will make false stitches in the pillow-slips which they had been hemming so neatly when the yellow chariot drove up to the front-door; and Master Harry will be merely dazed by that page of the Delectus which he had almost got by heart.

Yet Again Max Beerbohm 1914