I. In gen. separate by culling out; to choose out, cul select (rare but class.; “syn.: eligo, deligo), nec vero utetur imprudenter hac copia (communium locorum), sed omnia expendet et seliget,” Cic. Or. 15, 47: “exempla,” id. ib. 29, 103; id. Fin. 3, 6, 22 Orell. and Otto N. cr.: ex quo (commentario) tu, quae digna sunt, selige, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 11, 4; Ov. Am. 3, 11, 49; App. M. 10, p. 245, 10: “selectae sententiae,” Cic. N. D. 1, 30, 85: “(Romulus) selecta pectora Patres dixit,” Ov. F. 5, 71.—
II. In partic.
A. Judices selecti, the judges in criminal suits selected by the prœtor, Cic. Clu. 43, 121; Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 13, § 32; Hor. S. 1, 4, 123; Ov. Tr. 2, 132; id. Am. 1, 10, 38: “non potest ad haec sumi judex ex turbā selectorum,” Sen. Ben. 3, 7, 7; cf. also Plin. 33, 2, 7, § 31.—
B. Di selecti, acc. to Varro, the following twenty Roman deities (twelve male and eight female): Deos selectos esse Janum, Jovem, Saturnum, Genium, Mercurium, Apollinem, Martem, Vulcanum, Neptunum, Solem, Orcum, Liberum patrem, Tellurem, Cererem, Junonem, Lunam, Dianam, Minervam, Venerem, Vestam, Varr. ap. Aug. Civ. Dei, 7, 2 sq.; cf. Aug. Civ. Dei, 7, 33. The sixteenth book of Varro's Antiquitates rerum divinarum treats of the di selecti; cf. Becker, Antiq. 4, p. 24 sq.
