Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Optiones

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

OPTIO'NES. Deputies or adjutants in the army, whom the superior officers and centurions had the power of appointing to assist them in the discharge of their duties, or to perform their duty for them in case they were themselves invalided, or otherwise incapacitated. Varro, L. L. v. 91. Vet. Mil. ii. 7.