mandare alicui, ut, etc. (to commission anybody): delegare (e.g., aliquem huic negotio; to depute him to perform it; e.g., in Golden Age, of deputing a person to perform what one should perform one’s self): deferre, demandare alicui aliquid (entrust anybody with the care of anything; e.g., curam alicujus rei): to depute the tribunes to attend to the wounded, curam sauciorum militum tribunis demandare (Liv.). ☞ Deputare = (1) to prune, (2) to reckon, consider, etc. Sometimes alicui alicujus rei faciendae licentiam dare, or permittere: liberum alicujus rei arbitrium alicui permittere (both meaning to give to anybody competent authority to act) may serve: to be deputed by anybody, mandata habere ab aliquo: to do anything in consequence of being deputed by anybody, alicujus nomine (in anybody’s name and by anybody’s authority); aliquo auctore (as anybody’s representative) facere aliquid. Vid: DELEGATE.