DEPUTATION Copy link • DEPUTATIONAct of deputing, delegatio (in Cic. only of the assignment of a debt; in other sense in later writers). Permission to act, potestas aliquid faciendi; auctoritas (the commission, by virtue of which anybody is competent to act): by deputation from the Senate, auctoritate senatus: to grant a deputation to anybody, alicujus arbitrio rem gerendam tradere, or committere: by deputation from anybody, mandatu alicujus (Cic.); auctoritate alicujus (by his authority): nomine alicujus (in his name). Persons deputed, legatio: legati: If the name of the state is mentioned, the adjective is often used alone; “the Sicilian deputations,” Siculi. Some deputations arrive from Sicily, Siculi veniunt cum mandatis.