A selection or collection of passages from texts, often used as an anthology or reading selection for students; a literary miscellany.
From Latin 'delectus' meaning 'a choosing' or 'selection,' from 'deligere' (to choose). This term was especially used in classical education to describe anthologies.
Latin students still use books called 'Delectus' today—it's one of the few Latin words that survived directly into educational practice because teachers needed a word for 'curated selections of texts.'
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