lusi

lusi l

usum

to play, sport / imitate, banter / delude, deceive.

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affătim (also adf-), adv. [Serv. ad Verg. A. 1, 123, cites fatim = abundanter; cf.: fatiscor, defatiscor, fatigo; Corss. Ausspr. I. p. 158, refers fatim to the same root as chatis, chêros].

To satisfaction, sufficiently, abundantly, enough (so that one desires no more, therefore subjective; while satis signifies sufficient, so that one needs nothing more, therefore objective, Doed. Syn. I. p. 108 sq.): adfatim edi, bibi, lusi, Liv. Andron. ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 11 Müll., after Hom. Od. 15, 372 (Com. Rel. p. 4 Rib.):

edas de alieno quantum velis, usque adfatim,

till you have enough, Plaut. Poen. 3, 1, 31: miseria una uni quidem homini est adfatim, id. Trin. 5, 2, 61 (where adfatim, as sometimes also satis, abunde, frustra, is constr. as an adj.):

eisdem seminibus homines adfatim vescuntur,

Cic. N. D. 2, 51:

adfatim satiata (aquila),

id. Tusc. 2, 10, 24:

adfatim satisfacere alicui,

id. Att. 2, 16:

parare commeatum adfatim,

Sall. J. 43:

de cytiso adfatim diximus,

Plin. 18, 16, 43, § 148.—Acc. to Fest. p. 11, Terence uses it (in a passage not now extant) for ad lassitudinem, to weariness, satiety, which may be derived from the etym. above given.—Sometimes, like abunde and satis, as subst. with gen.; v. Roby, §§

1294, 1296, and Rudd. II. p. 317: divitiarum adfatim est,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 1, 33:

hominum,

id. Men. 3, 1, 10:

copiarum,

Liv. 34, 37:

vini,

Just. 1, 8.—

In later Lat. before an adj. (cf. abunde), sufficiently, enough:

adfatim onustus,

App. M. 9, p. 221, 31 Elm.:

feminae adfatim multae,

Amm. 14, 6.

Annianus, in Gell. 7, 7, 1, accented the word a/dfatim, while at an earlier period it was pronounced adfa/tim, since it was considered as two words; cf. Doed. Syn. I. p. 110.

affătim (also adf-), adv. [Serv. ad Verg. A. 1, 123, cites fatim = abundanter; cf.: fatiscor, defatiscor, fatigo; Corss. Ausspr. I. p. 158, refers fatim to the same root as chatis, chêros].

To satisfaction, sufficiently, abundantly, enough (so that one desires no more, therefore subjective; while satis signifies sufficient, so that one needs nothing more, therefore objective, Doed. Syn. I. p. 108 sq.): adfatim edi, bibi, lusi, Liv. Andron. ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 11 Müll., after Hom. Od. 15, 372 (Com. Rel. p. 4 Rib.):

edas de alieno quantum velis, usque adfatim,

till you have enough, Plaut. Poen. 3, 1, 31: miseria una uni quidem homini est adfatim, id. Trin. 5, 2, 61 (where adfatim, as sometimes also satis, abunde, frustra, is constr. as an adj.):

eisdem seminibus homines adfatim vescuntur,

Cic. N. D. 2, 51:

adfatim satiata (aquila),

id. Tusc. 2, 10, 24:

adfatim satisfacere alicui,

id. Att. 2, 16:

parare commeatum adfatim,

Sall. J. 43:

de cytiso adfatim diximus,

Plin. 18, 16, 43, § 148.—Acc. to Fest. p. 11, Terence uses it (in a passage not now extant) for ad lassitudinem, to weariness, satiety, which may be derived from the etym. above given.—Sometimes, like abunde and satis, as subst. with gen.; v. Roby, §§

1294, 1296, and Rudd. II. p. 317: divitiarum adfatim est,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 1, 33:

hominum,

id. Men. 3, 1, 10:

copiarum,

Liv. 34, 37:

vini,

Just. 1, 8.—

In later Lat. before an adj. (cf. abunde), sufficiently, enough:

adfatim onustus,

App. M. 9, p. 221, 31 Elm.:

feminae adfatim multae,

Amm. 14, 6.

Annianus, in Gell. 7, 7, 1, accented the word a/dfatim, while at an earlier period it was pronounced adfa/tim, since it was considered as two words; cf. Doed. Syn. I. p. 110.

D, d (n. indecl., sometimes f. sc. littera), the flat dental mute, corresponding in character and sound to the English d and the Greek D, was the fourth letter of the Latin alphabet, and was called de: Ter. Maur. p. 2385 P., Auson. Idyll. 12, de Litt. Monos. 14. But at the end of a syllable, or after another consonant, its sound was sharpened, so that the grammarians often discuss the question whether d or t should be written, especially in conjunctions and prepositions. Illa quoque servata est a multis differentia, ut ad cum esset praepositio, d litteram, cum autem conjunctio, t acciperet (Quint. 1, 7, 5; cf. id. 1, 4, 16). Hence we may infer that some disputed this distinction, and that the sounds of ad and at must at least have been very similar (cf. also Terent. Scaur. p. 2250, Vel. Long. p. 2230 sq., Cassiod. p. 2287, 2291). Thus also aput, it, quit, quot, aliut, set, haut are found for apud, id, quid, quod, aliud, sed, haud. It would appear from the remarks of these authors that the last two words in particular, having a proclitic character, while they distinctly retained the d sound before an initial vowel in the following word, were pronounced before a consonant almost as set, haut (Mar. Vict. p. 2462 P., Vel. Long. l. l. v. Corss. Ausspr. 1, 191 sq.). The use of t for d in the middle of a word, as Alexenter for Alexander, atnato for adnato, is very rare (cf. Wordsworth, Fragm. p. 486 sq.). On the other hand, the use of d for t, which sometimes appears in MSS. and inscrr., as ed, capud, essed, inquid (all of which occur in the Cod. palimps. of Cic. Rep.), adque, quodannis, sicud, etc., fecid, reliquid, etc. (all in inscriptions after the Augustan period), is to be ascribed to a later phonetic softening (cf. Corss. Ausspr. 1, 191 sq.).

As an initial, the letter d, in pure Latin words, suffers only a vowel after it; the single consonantal compound dr being found only in borrowed words, such as drama, Drusus, Druidae, etc., and in the two onomatopees drenso and drindio. Accordingly, the d of the initial dv, from du, was rejected, and the remaining v either retained unaltered (as in v iginti for du iginti; cf. triginta) or changed into b (as in b ellum, b is, b onus, for du ellum, du is, du onus; v. those words and the letter B). So too in and after the 4th century A.D., di before vowels was pronounced like j (cf. J ovis for Dj ovis, and J anus for Di anus); and hence, as the Greek di ( di) passed into dz, i. e. z (as in z a for d ia, and z eta for di aeta), we sometimes find the same name written in two or three ways, as Diabolenus, Jabolenus, Zabolenus; Jadera, Diadora, Zara. In many Greek words, however, which originally began with a y sound, d was prefixed by an instinctive effort to avoid a disagreeable utterance, just as in English the initial j has regularly assumed the sound of dj: thus Gr. zugon, i. e. diugon = L. jugum; and in such cases the d sound has been prefixed in Greek, not lost in Latin and other languages (v. Curt. Griech. Etym. p. 608 sq.).b. As a medial, d before most consonants undergoes assimilation; v. ad, no. II.; assum, init., and cf. iccirco, quippiam, quicquam, for idcirco, quidpiam, quidquam; and in contractions like cette from cedite, pelluviae from pediluviae, sella from sedela. In contractions, however, the d is sometimes dropped and a compensation effected by lengthening the preceding vowel, as scāla for scand-la. D before endings which begin with s was suppressed, as pes from ped-s, lapis from lapid-s, frons from frond-s, rasi from radsi, risi from rid-si, lusi from lud-si, clausi from claud-si; but in the second and third roots of cedo, and in the third roots of some other verbs, d is assimilated, as cessi, cessum, fossum, etc. D is also omitted before s in composition when another consonant follows the s, as ascendo, aspicio, asto, astringo, and so also before the nasal gn in agnatus, agnitus, and agnosco, from gnatus, etc.: but in other combinations it is assimilated, as assentio, acclamo, accresco; affligo, affrico; agglomero, aggrego; applico, approbo, etc. In tentum, from tendo, d is dropped to avoid the combination ndt or ntt, since euphony forbids a consonant to be doubled after another.g. Final d stood only in ad, apud, sed, and in the neuter pronouns quid, quod, illud, istud, and aliud, anciently alid. Otherwise, the ending d was considered barbarous, Prisc. p. 686 P.

The letter d represents regularly an original Indo-Germanic d, in Greek d, but which in German becomes z, in Gothic t, and in Anglo-Saxon t: cf. Gr. hêdomai, Sanscr. svad, Germ. süss, Angl.-Sax. svēte (sweet), with Lat. suadeo; domare with Gr. damaô, Germ. zähmen, Eng. tame; domus with demô, timber, O. H. Germ. zimber; duo with duô, zwei, two. But it is also interchanged with other sounds, and thus sometimes represents—

An original t: mendax from mentior; quadraginta, quadra, etc., from quatuor.—

An original r: ar and ad; apur or apor and apud; meridies and medidies, audio and auris; cf. arbiter, from ad-beto; arcesso for ad-cesso.—

An original l: adeps, Gr. aleipha; dacrima and lacrima, dingua and lingua; cf. on the contrary, olere for odere, consilium and considere, Ulixes from Odusseus (v. Corss. Ausspr. 1, 223).—

An original s: Claudius, from the Sabine Clausus, medius and misos; and, on the contrary, rosa and rhodon. —

A Greek th: fides, pistis; gaudere, gêtheô; vad-i-monium (from va-d-s, vadis), aethlon.

In the oldest period of the language d was the ending of the ablat. sing. and of the adverbs which were originally ablatives (cf. Ritschl, Neue Plaut. Excur. I.; Brix ad Plaut. Trin. Prol. 10): pu CNANDO, MARID, DICTATORED, IN ALTOD MARID, NAVALED PRAEDAD on the Col. Rostr.; DE SENATVOS SENTENTIAD (thrice) IN OQVOLTOD, IN POPLICOD, IN PREIVATOD, IN COVENTIONID, and the adverbs SVPRAD SCRIPTVM EST (thrice), EXSTRAD QVAM SEI, and even EXSTRAD VRBEM, in S. C. de Bacch. So intra-d, ultra-d, citra-d, contra-d, infra-d, supra-d; contro-d, intro-d, etc.; and probably interea-d, postea-d. Here too belongs, no doubt, the adverb FACILVMED, found in the last-mentioned inscription. But this use of the d became antiquated during the 3d century B.C., and is not found at all in any inscription after 186 B. C. Plautus seems to have used or omitted it at will (Ritschl, Neue Plaut. Excurs. p. 18: Corss. Ausspr. 1, 197; 2, 1008).

D final was also anciently found—

In the accus. sing. of the personal pronouns med, ted, sed: INTER SED CONIOVRASE and INTER SED DEDISE, for inter se conjuravisse and inter se dedisse, in the S. C. de Bacch. This usage was retained, at least as a license of verse, when the next word began with a vowel, even in the time of Plautus. But in the classic period this d no longer appears. —

In the imperative mood;

as estod,

Fest. p. 230. The Oscan language retained this ending (v. Corss. Ausspr. 1, 206).—

In the preposition se-, originally identical with the conjunction sed (it is retained in the compound seditio); also in red-, prod-, antid-, postid-, etc. ( redire, prodire, etc.); and in these words, too, it is a remnant of the ancient characteristic of the ablative (v. Corss. Ausspr. 1, 200 sq.; Roby, Lat. Gr. 1, 49).

As an abbreviation, D usually stands for the praenomen Decimus; also for Deus, Divus, Dominus, Decurio, etc.; over epitaphs, D. M. = Diis Manibus; over temple inscriptions, D. O. M. = Deo Optimo Maxumo; in the titles of the later emperors, D. N. = Dominus Noster, and DD. NN. = Domini Nostri. Before dates of letters, D signified dabam, and also dies; hence, a. d. = ante diem; in offerings to the gods, D. D. = dono or donum dedit; D. D. D. = dat, dicat, dedicat, etc. Cf. Orell. Inscr. II. p. 457 sq.

D, d (n. indecl., sometimes f. sc. littera), the flat dental mute, corresponding in character and sound to the English d and the Greek D, was the fourth letter of the Latin alphabet, and was called de: Ter. Maur. p. 2385 P., Auson. Idyll. 12, de Litt. Monos. 14. But at the end of a syllable, or after another consonant, its sound was sharpened, so that the grammarians often discuss the question whether d or t should be written, especially in conjunctions and prepositions. Illa quoque servata est a multis differentia, ut ad cum esset praepositio, d litteram, cum autem conjunctio, t acciperet (Quint. 1, 7, 5; cf. id. 1, 4, 16). Hence we may infer that some disputed this distinction, and that the sounds of ad and at must at least have been very similar (cf. also Terent. Scaur. p. 2250, Vel. Long. p. 2230 sq., Cassiod. p. 2287, 2291). Thus also aput, it, quit, quot, aliut, set, haut are found for apud, id, quid, quod, aliud, sed, haud. It would appear from the remarks of these authors that the last two words in particular, having a proclitic character, while they distinctly retained the d sound before an initial vowel in the following word, were pronounced before a consonant almost as set, haut (Mar. Vict. p. 2462 P., Vel. Long. l. l. v. Corss. Ausspr. 1, 191 sq.). The use of t for d in the middle of a word, as Alexenter for Alexander, atnato for adnato, is very rare (cf. Wordsworth, Fragm. p. 486 sq.). On the other hand, the use of d for t, which sometimes appears in MSS. and inscrr., as ed, capud, essed, inquid (all of which occur in the Cod. palimps. of Cic. Rep.), adque, quodannis, sicud, etc., fecid, reliquid, etc. (all in inscriptions after the Augustan period), is to be ascribed to a later phonetic softening (cf. Corss. Ausspr. 1, 191 sq.).

As an initial, the letter d, in pure Latin words, suffers only a vowel after it; the single consonantal compound dr being found only in borrowed words, such as drama, Drusus, Druidae, etc., and in the two onomatopees drenso and drindio. Accordingly, the d of the initial dv, from du, was rejected, and the remaining v either retained unaltered (as in v iginti for du iginti; cf. triginta) or changed into b (as in b ellum, b is, b onus, for du ellum, du is, du onus; v. those words and the letter B). So too in and after the 4th century A.D., di before vowels was pronounced like j (cf. J ovis for Dj ovis, and J anus for Di anus); and hence, as the Greek di ( di) passed into dz, i. e. z (as in z a for d ia, and z eta for di aeta), we sometimes find the same name written in two or three ways, as Diabolenus, Jabolenus, Zabolenus; Jadera, Diadora, Zara. In many Greek words, however, which originally began with a y sound, d was prefixed by an instinctive effort to avoid a disagreeable utterance, just as in English the initial j has regularly assumed the sound of dj: thus Gr. zugon, i. e. diugon = L. jugum; and in such cases the d sound has been prefixed in Greek, not lost in Latin and other languages (v. Curt. Griech. Etym. p. 608 sq.).b. As a medial, d before most consonants undergoes assimilation; v. ad, no. II.; assum, init., and cf. iccirco, quippiam, quicquam, for idcirco, quidpiam, quidquam; and in contractions like cette from cedite, pelluviae from pediluviae, sella from sedela. In contractions, however, the d is sometimes dropped and a compensation effected by lengthening the preceding vowel, as scāla for scand-la. D before endings which begin with s was suppressed, as pes from ped-s, lapis from lapid-s, frons from frond-s, rasi from radsi, risi from rid-si, lusi from lud-si, clausi from claud-si; but in the second and third roots of cedo, and in the third roots of some other verbs, d is assimilated, as cessi, cessum, fossum, etc. D is also omitted before s in composition when another consonant follows the s, as ascendo, aspicio, asto, astringo, and so also before the nasal gn in agnatus, agnitus, and agnosco, from gnatus, etc.: but in other combinations it is assimilated, as assentio, acclamo, accresco; affligo, affrico; agglomero, aggrego; applico, approbo, etc. In tentum, from tendo, d is dropped to avoid the combination ndt or ntt, since euphony forbids a consonant to be doubled after another.g. Final d stood only in ad, apud, sed, and in the neuter pronouns quid, quod, illud, istud, and aliud, anciently alid. Otherwise, the ending d was considered barbarous, Prisc. p. 686 P.

The letter d represents regularly an original Indo-Germanic d, in Greek d, but which in German becomes z, in Gothic t, and in Anglo-Saxon t: cf. Gr. hêdomai, Sanscr. svad, Germ. süss, Angl.-Sax. svēte (sweet), with Lat. suadeo; domare with Gr. damaô, Germ. zähmen, Eng. tame; domus with demô, timber, O. H. Germ. zimber; duo with duô, zwei, two. But it is also interchanged with other sounds, and thus sometimes represents—

An original t: mendax from mentior; quadraginta, quadra, etc., from quatuor.—

An original r: ar and ad; apur or apor and apud; meridies and medidies, audio and auris; cf. arbiter, from ad-beto; arcesso for ad-cesso.—

An original l: adeps, Gr. aleipha; dacrima and lacrima, dingua and lingua; cf. on the contrary, olere for odere, consilium and considere, Ulixes from Odusseus (v. Corss. Ausspr. 1, 223).—

An original s: Claudius, from the Sabine Clausus, medius and misos; and, on the contrary, rosa and rhodon. —

A Greek th: fides, pistis; gaudere, gêtheô; vad-i-monium (from va-d-s, vadis), aethlon.

In the oldest period of the language d was the ending of the ablat. sing. and of the adverbs which were originally ablatives (cf. Ritschl, Neue Plaut. Excur. I.; Brix ad Plaut. Trin. Prol. 10): pu CNANDO, MARID, DICTATORED, IN ALTOD MARID, NAVALED PRAEDAD on the Col. Rostr.; DE SENATVOS SENTENTIAD (thrice) IN OQVOLTOD, IN POPLICOD, IN PREIVATOD, IN COVENTIONID, and the adverbs SVPRAD SCRIPTVM EST (thrice), EXSTRAD QVAM SEI, and even EXSTRAD VRBEM, in S. C. de Bacch. So intra-d, ultra-d, citra-d, contra-d, infra-d, supra-d; contro-d, intro-d, etc.; and probably interea-d, postea-d. Here too belongs, no doubt, the adverb FACILVMED, found in the last-mentioned inscription. But this use of the d became antiquated during the 3d century B.C., and is not found at all in any inscription after 186 B. C. Plautus seems to have used or omitted it at will (Ritschl, Neue Plaut. Excurs. p. 18: Corss. Ausspr. 1, 197; 2, 1008).

D final was also anciently found—

In the accus. sing. of the personal pronouns med, ted, sed: INTER SED CONIOVRASE and INTER SED DEDISE, for inter se conjuravisse and inter se dedisse, in the S. C. de Bacch. This usage was retained, at least as a license of verse, when the next word began with a vowel, even in the time of Plautus. But in the classic period this d no longer appears. —

In the imperative mood;

as estod,

Fest. p. 230. The Oscan language retained this ending (v. Corss. Ausspr. 1, 206).—

In the preposition se-, originally identical with the conjunction sed (it is retained in the compound seditio); also in red-, prod-, antid-, postid-, etc. ( redire, prodire, etc.); and in these words, too, it is a remnant of the ancient characteristic of the ablative (v. Corss. Ausspr. 1, 200 sq.; Roby, Lat. Gr. 1, 49).

As an abbreviation, D usually stands for the praenomen Decimus; also for Deus, Divus, Dominus, Decurio, etc.; over epitaphs, D. M. = Diis Manibus; over temple inscriptions, D. O. M. = Deo Optimo Maxumo; in the titles of the later emperors, D. N. = Dominus Noster, and DD. NN. = Domini Nostri. Before dates of letters, D signified dabam, and also dies; hence, a. d. = ante diem; in offerings to the gods, D. D. = dono or donum dedit; D. D. D. = dat, dicat, dedicat, etc. Cf. Orell. Inscr. II. p. 457 sq.

jŏcōsus, a, um, adj. [jocus], full of jesting, jocose, humorous, droll, facetious (class.).

Of persons:

homo humanus et jocosus,

Varr. R. R. 2, 5:

Maecenas,

Hor. Epod. 3, 20:

Musa,

Ov. Tr. 2, 354.—

Of inanim. and abstr. things:

res,

Cic. Off. 1, 37:

lis,

Ov. M. 3, 332:

verba,

id. F. 6, 692:

furtum,

Hor. C. 1, 10, 7: Nilus, the sportive Nile, with reference to the merry lives of the Egyptians, Ov. Tr. 1, 2, 80.— Adv.: jŏ-cōsē, jestingly, jocosely:

eumque lusi jocose satis,

Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 12, 2.— Comp.:

dicere aliquid jocosius,

Cic. Fam. 9, 24, 4; Hor. S. 1, 4, 104.

jŭvĕnīlis ( jŭvĕnāl-), e, adj. [id.], of or belonging to youth, youthful, juvenile.

Lit.: juvenilis quaedam dicendi impunitas et licentia. Cic. Brut. 91, 316:

redundantia,

id. Or. 30, 108: sumptis Priamum juvenalibus armis vidit. Verg. A. 2, 518:

corpus,

id. ib. 5, 475:

valida ac juvenilia membra,

Juv. 11, 5:

anni,

Ov. M. 8, 632:

caput,

id. ib. 1, 564:

femur,

id. Am. 1, 5, 22:

suis semper juvenilior annis,

id. M. 14, 639:

sidus juvenile nepotes,

shining among the youths like stars, a youthful constellation, id. Tr. 2, 167.—

Transf.

Lively, cheerful:

integer et laetus laeta et juvenilia lusi,

Ov. Tr. 5, 1, 7.—

Violent, strong:

praeceps juvenile pericli,

Stat. S. 1, 4, 50.—Hence, advv.

jŭvĕnīle, youthfully:

adhuc juvenile vagans,

Stat. S. 3, 5, 25.—

jŭvĕnīlĭter, youthfully, after the manner of youth:

exsultare,

Cic. de Sen. 4, 10 (in Ovid only juvenaliter; v. juvenalis fin.).

jŭvĕnīlis ( jŭvĕnāl-), e, adj. [id.], of or belonging to youth, youthful, juvenile.

Lit.: juvenilis quaedam dicendi impunitas et licentia. Cic. Brut. 91, 316:

redundantia,

id. Or. 30, 108: sumptis Priamum juvenalibus armis vidit. Verg. A. 2, 518:

corpus,

id. ib. 5, 475:

valida ac juvenilia membra,

Juv. 11, 5:

anni,

Ov. M. 8, 632:

caput,

id. ib. 1, 564:

femur,

id. Am. 1, 5, 22:

suis semper juvenilior annis,

id. M. 14, 639:

sidus juvenile nepotes,

shining among the youths like stars, a youthful constellation, id. Tr. 2, 167.—

Transf.

Lively, cheerful:

integer et laetus laeta et juvenilia lusi,

Ov. Tr. 5, 1, 7.—

Violent, strong:

praeceps juvenile pericli,

Stat. S. 1, 4, 50.—Hence, advv.

jŭvĕnīle, youthfully:

adhuc juvenile vagans,

Stat. S. 3, 5, 25.—

jŭvĕnīlĭter, youthfully, after the manner of youth:

exsultare,

Cic. de Sen. 4, 10 (in Ovid only juvenaliter; v. juvenalis fin.).

lūdo, si, sum ( inf. ludier, Ter. Ad. 4, 3, 16), 3, v. a. and n. [root lud- for loid-, from Sanscr. krīd, to play; cf. laus and cluere from Sanscr. root cru-], to play.

Lit., to play, play at a game of some kind:

tesseris,

Ter. Ad. 4, 7, 21:

aleā ludere,

Cic. Phil. 2, 23, 56:

pilā et duodecim scriptis,

id. de Or. 1, 50, 217; 1, 16, 73; 2, 62, 253:

cum pila,

id. Tusc. 5, 20, 60:

trocho,

Hor. C. 3, 24, 56:

nucibus,

Mart. 14, 1, 12:

pilā,

Val. Max. 8, 8, 2:

positā luditur arcā,

with one's whole cash-box staked, Juv. 1, 90:

eburnis quadrigis cotidie in abaco,

Suet. Ner. 22:

apud quem alea lusum esse dicetur,

Dig. 11, 5, 1 praef.:

senatus consultum vetuit in pecuniam ludere,

to play for money, ib. 11, 5, 2:

ego nisi quom lusim nil morer ullum lucrum,

Plaut. Rud. 4, 7, 22. —

With acc.:

aleam,

Suet. Aug. 70; id. Claud. 33; id. Ner. 30:

par impar,

id. Aug. 71; Hor. S. 2, 3, 248:

ducatus et imperia,

Suet. Ner. 35:

Trojam,

id. Caes. 39; id. Ner. 7:

proelia latronum,

Ov. A. A. 3, 357; cf. pass.:

sunt aliis scriptae, quibus alea luditur, artes,

id. Tr. 2, 471:

alea luditur,

Juv. 8, 10:

aleae ludendae causa,

Dig. 11, 5, 1 praef.:

alea ludebatur,

ib. 11, 5, 1, § 2.—

Absol.:

lusimus per omnes dies,

Suet. Aug. 71; 94; cf.:

ludis circensibus elephantos lusisse,

appeared in the public games, Liv. 44, 18, 8.—In sup.:

dimittere lusum,

Varr. Sat. Men. 53, 7.—

To play, sport, frisk, frolic:

dum se exornat, nos volo Ludere inter nos,

have some fun, Plaut. Stich. 5, 4, 20:

ludere armis,

Lucr. 2, 631:

suppeditant et campus noster et studia venandi honesta exempla ludendi,

Cic. Off. 1, 29, 104:

ad ludendumne, an ad pugnandum, arma sumturi,

id. de Or. 2, 20, 84:

in numerum,

dance, Verg. E. 6, 28:

hic juvenum series teneris immixta puellis ludit,

Tib. 1, 3, 64:

cumque marinae In sicco ludunt fulicae,

Verg. G. 1, 363:

in exiguo cymba lacu,

Ov. Tr. 2, 330. —

Trop.

To sport, play with any thing, to practise as a pastime, amuse one's self with any thing:

illa ipsa ludens conjeci in communes locos, Cic. Par. prooem.: Prima Syracosio dignata est ludere versu Nostra... Thalia,

Verg. E. 6, 1.—Esp., to play on an instrument of music, to make or compose music or song:

ludere quae vellem calamo permisit agresti,

Verg. E. 1, 10:

talia fumosi luduntur mense Decembri,

Ov. Tr. 2, 491:

quod tenerae cantent, lusit tua musa, puellae,

id. Am. 3, 1, 27:

coloni Versibus incomptis ludunt,

Verg. G. 2, 386:

carmina pastorum,

id. ib. 4, 565; Suet. Ner. 3:

si quid vacui sub umbra Lusimus tecum,

Hor. C. 1, 22, 2.—

To sport, dally, wanton (cf. "amorous play," Milton, P. L. 9, 1045):

scis solere illam aetatem tali ludo ludere,

Plaut. Most. 5, 2, 36: affatim edi, bibi, lusi, Liv. Andron. ap. Paul. ex Fest. s. v. affatim, p. 11 Müll.; cf.:

lusisti satis, edisti satis, atque bibisti,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 214; Ov. A. A. 2, 389; Cat. 61, 207; Suet. Tib. 44; Mart. 11, 104, 5.—

Ludere aliquem or aliquid, to play, mock, imitate, mimic a person or thing (only in mockery; cf.: partes agere, etc.): civem bonum ludit, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 9, 1; cf.:

ludere opus,

to imitate work, make believe work, Hor. S. 2, 3, 252:

magistratum fascibus purpurāque,

App. M. 11, p. 260 fin.:

ludere causas,

Calp. Ecl. 1, 45: impia dum Phoebi Caesar mendacia ludit, Poët. ap. Suet. Aug. 70.—

To trifle with:

summa pericula,

Mart. 9, 38, 1:

viribus imperii,

Sen. Brev. Vit. 18, 4.—

To spend in play or amusement, to sport away:

otium,

Mart. 3, 67, 9.—Hence, ludere operam, to throw away one's labor, to labor in vain, Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 135.—

To make sport or game of a person, to ridicule, rally, banter:

Domitius in senatu lusit Appium collegam,

Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 15 a, 13:

satis jocose aliquem ludere,

id. ib. 2, 12, 2:

omnium irrisione ludi,

id. de Or. 1, 12, 50.—Rarely with ad:

caput aselli, ad quod lascivi ludebant ruris alumni,

Juv. 11, 98.—

To delude, deceive:

auditis, an me ludit amabilis Insania?

Hor. C. 3, 4, 5; Ov. A. A. 3, 332:

custodes,

Tib. 1, 6, 9; 3, 4, 7.— Comp.:

hoc civili bello, quam multa (haruspicum responsa) luserunt,

i. e. gave wanton, deceptive responses, Cic. Div. 2, 24, 53.