lēgātus ī, m P. of 1 lego, an ambassador, legate: legatos mittere: missitare supplicantīs legatos, S.: missi magnis de rebus uterque Legati, H.: Legati responsa ferunt, V.

—A deputy, lieutenant, lieutenant-general (the second in command): qui M. Aemilio legati fuerunt: Caesaris, Cs.: hiberna cum legato praefectoque tradidisses: quaestorius: magnitudo et splendor legati, L.: in magnā legatum quaere popinā, Iu.

—In the Empire, an imperial legate, governor of a province, Ta.