Determino, Ergo Sum?

From online Short/Lewis

dētermĭno , āvi, ātum, 1,

I. v. a.,

to enclose within boundaries,
to bound;

to limit,
prescribe,

"determine" (rare but class.).


I. Prop.:

regiones, limites, confinia,

Plaut. Poen. prol. 49:

augur regiones ab oriente ad occasum determinavit, Liv. 1, 18 fin.; cf.

Asiam ab oriente Armenia minore, ab occidente Phrygia, etc.,

Plin. 5, 27, 28, § 102:

imaginem templi scipione in solo

id. 28, 2, 4, § 15.—


II. Transf., to fix, settle,

determine:

teli ictus

Lucr. 6, 403:

segetes in diem

Plin. 8, 25, 39, § 77; cf.:

diem jejuniis

Tert. adv. Psych. 2:

senatoria et equestria officia biennio spatio

Suet. Galb. 15; Tac. Or. 16:

id quod dicit spiritu, non arte determinat

measures, Cic. de Or. 3, 44, 175:

judicium determinat causas

Vulg. Prov. 26, 10:

mensuram

(Ponti),” Plin. 4, 12, 24, § 77.—Poet.:

omnia fixa tuus glomerans determinat annus

Cic. Poet. Div. 1, 12.


--- uses to consider, "he is a very determined person. His will is strong -- yet free". "Free and determined?" Kantian echoes?