ELECTION Copy link • ELECTIONChoice, electio (act ofchoosing): optio (liberty of choice): arbitrium (free will): eligendi optio; also optio et potestas; potestas optioque. Anybody may make his election to do this, etc., liberum est alicui aliquid facere (i. e., rather than something else, Cic.; and also in Inst. Just., etc., for the power of an heir, legatee, etc., to accept or refuse the heirship, legacy, etc.). To allow anybody to make his election, alicui optionem dare, or facere, or deferre (all Cic., not ferre: electionem dare, perhaps only in Velleius, 2, 72, 5) [Vid: CHOICE]; potestatem optionemque facere alicui, ut eligat (Cic.); facere alicui arbitrium in eligendo. Election to an office, creatio. In Latin often comitia, plur. (i. e., the assembly at which a person is elected; e.g., tuis comitiis): of a member of Parliament, *creatio senatoris Britinnici. Day of election, dies comitialis: the day of your election, comitia tua.