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1 nugae
nūgae, ārum, f. [etym. dub.; old form naugae; cf.: naucum, nux], jokes, jests, idle speeches, trifles, trumpery, nonsense (syn. ineptiae).I.Lit.:II.aufer nugas,
away with your jesting, Plaut. Truc. 4, 4, 7:nugas postulare,
id. Trin. 2, 4, 40; id. Truc. 2, 1, 20; id. Merc. 2, 4, 1:huncine hominem tantis delectatum esse nugis?
Cic. Div. 2, 13, 30. —Hence, nugas agere, to play the fool:nisi argentum dederit, nugas egerit,
Plaut. Men. prol. 54; so,maximas nugas agis,
id. As. 1, 1, 78;and ellipt. without ago: quo illum sequar? in Persas? nugas,
nonsense! id. Pers. 4, 7, 7; id. Most. 5, 1, 38.—Of verses, trifles:nescio quid meditans nugarum,
Hor. S. 1, 9, 2; cf. Cat. 1, 4; Mart. 9, 1, 5 (cf. also:versūs et cetera ludicra,
Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 10).—Of the songs of hired female mourners at a funeral:haec sunt non nugae: non enim mortualia,
Plaut. As. 4, 1, 63.—Acc. to Nonius, Plautus called women's finery nugae, Non. 144, 30; v. nugivendus. —Transf. (abstr. pro concreto), jesters, jokers, droll fellows:amicos habet meras nugas,
Cic. Att. 6, 3, 5:ego Hephaestum... Niciam, ego nugas maximas omni meā comitate sum complexus,
id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 2 comites Graeculi, quocumque ibat:tum in comitatu nugarum nihil,
id. Mil. 21, 55.
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