• CHOICE

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• permission or power to choose, optio: eligendi optio: (the former the more common): also optio et potestas: potestas optioque (the proper word): arbitrium (a man’s free will). To give anybody his choice, alicui optionem dare, facere or deferre (all Cic., the first common; not optionem ferre): facere alicui potestatem optionemque, ut eligat; facere alicui arbitrium in eligendo: to give anybody his choice of two things, alicui po testatem optionemque facere, ut eligat, utrum velit: to give anybody his free choice in any matter, alicujus or alicujus rei optionem mittere: alicutns eligendi optionem alicui dare: alicui permittere arbitrium alicujus rei (e.g., whether it is to be peace or war, pacia ac belli). The choice is left to you, or you may make your choice, optio tua est: if I had my choice, si optio esset: it is left to his free choice, optio ei est or data est. It is only a choice of evils, nihil est medium. To give anybody his choice, which of his colleagues he will have, alicui permittere, ut ex collegis optet, quem velit.
• Election, act of choosing, delectus: electio: creatio (to an office). An elegant choice of words, verborum delectus elegans; elegantia verborum, sermonis. Vid: “To make one’s choice” [Vid: CHOOSE].
• Care in choosing, delectus: too scrupulous in the choice of words, in verborum delectu nimius: with judgment and choice, cum delectu: eleganter: without judgment or choice, sine (ullo) delectu: promiscue: temere.
• The best, robur: flos, etc.; also optima, noun plur., but mostly by adjective.

2. select, etc., conquisitus: conquisitus et electus: exquisitus: eximius: egregius: praestans. Choicest, conquisitissimus. The choicest wines, veterrima vina. The tables were covered with the choicest dainties, mensae conquisitissimis epulis exstruebantur.