lūsor

lūsor, ōris, m. [ludo], one who plays at a game; a player.

Lit.:

sic ne perdiderit, non cessat perdere lusor,

Ov. A. A. 1, 1, 451; Sen. Ben. 2, 17, 3:

furtum factum domi et eo tempore quo alea ludebatur, licet lusor non fuerit qui quid eorum fecerit, impune fit,

Dig. 11, 5, 1, § 2.— Poet. transf.:

cum lusore catello,

a playful little dog, Juv. 9, 611.—

Trop.

A humorous writer: tenerorum lusor amorum, Ov Tr. 4, 10, 1.—

A banterer, mocker:

te ut deludam contra, lusorem meum,

Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 62.

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lūsōrĭus, a, um, adj. [lusor], of or belonging to a player.

Lit.:

pila,

a playing-ball, Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 205:

alveus cum tesseris,

id. 37, 2, 6, § 13.—Hence,

Subst.: lūsōrĭum, ii, n., a place where shows of gladiators and wild beasts were given:

statuit sibi triclinium in summo lusorio,

Lampr. Heliog. 25; Lact. Mort. Persecut. 21.—

Used for pleasure; hence, as subst.: lūsōrĭa, ae, f. (sc. navis), a [p. 1087] vessel for pleasure, yacht, Sen. Ben. 7, 20, 3; and, transf., any kind of light vessel, cutter:

lusoriis navibus discurrere flumen ultro citroque,

with cruisers, Amm. 17, 2, 3.— Plur.:

lusoriae,

swift-sailing cruisers, cutters, Vop. Bonos. 15: de lusoriis Danubii, Cod. Th. 7, tit. 17.—

Trop.

That serves for amusement or pastime, sportive:

quaestio,

Plin. 7, 53, 54, § 180:

arma,

Sen. Ep. 117, 25:

spectaculum non fidele et lusorium,

id. ib. 80, 2.—

Transf., that is done or given in play; hence, empty, ineffectual, invalid, = irritus:

nomen,

Sen. Ben. 5, 8, 3:

lusorias minas alicui facere,

Dig. 35, 3, 4:

imperium,

ib. 43, 8, 1.—Hence, adv.: lūsōrĭē, playfully, in sport, not in earnest, apparently:

lusorie (causam) agens,

Dig. 30, 1, 50, § 1.

lūsōrĭus, a, um, adj. [lusor], of or belonging to a player.

Lit.:

pila,

a playing-ball, Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 205:

alveus cum tesseris,

id. 37, 2, 6, § 13.—Hence,

Subst.: lūsōrĭum, ii, n., a place where shows of gladiators and wild beasts were given:

statuit sibi triclinium in summo lusorio,

Lampr. Heliog. 25; Lact. Mort. Persecut. 21.—

Used for pleasure; hence, as subst.: lūsōrĭa, ae, f. (sc. navis), a [p. 1087] vessel for pleasure, yacht, Sen. Ben. 7, 20, 3; and, transf., any kind of light vessel, cutter:

lusoriis navibus discurrere flumen ultro citroque,

with cruisers, Amm. 17, 2, 3.— Plur.:

lusoriae,

swift-sailing cruisers, cutters, Vop. Bonos. 15: de lusoriis Danubii, Cod. Th. 7, tit. 17.—

Trop.

That serves for amusement or pastime, sportive:

quaestio,

Plin. 7, 53, 54, § 180:

arma,

Sen. Ep. 117, 25:

spectaculum non fidele et lusorium,

id. ib. 80, 2.—

Transf., that is done or given in play; hence, empty, ineffectual, invalid, = irritus:

nomen,

Sen. Ben. 5, 8, 3:

lusorias minas alicui facere,

Dig. 35, 3, 4:

imperium,

ib. 43, 8, 1.—Hence, adv.: lūsōrĭē, playfully, in sport, not in earnest, apparently:

lusorie (causam) agens,

Dig. 30, 1, 50, § 1.

lūsōrĭus, a, um, adj. [lusor], of or belonging to a player.

Lit.:

pila,

a playing-ball, Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 205:

alveus cum tesseris,

id. 37, 2, 6, § 13.—Hence,

Subst.: lūsōrĭum, ii, n., a place where shows of gladiators and wild beasts were given:

statuit sibi triclinium in summo lusorio,

Lampr. Heliog. 25; Lact. Mort. Persecut. 21.—

Used for pleasure; hence, as subst.: lūsōrĭa, ae, f. (sc. navis), a [p. 1087] vessel for pleasure, yacht, Sen. Ben. 7, 20, 3; and, transf., any kind of light vessel, cutter:

lusoriis navibus discurrere flumen ultro citroque,

with cruisers, Amm. 17, 2, 3.— Plur.:

lusoriae,

swift-sailing cruisers, cutters, Vop. Bonos. 15: de lusoriis Danubii, Cod. Th. 7, tit. 17.—

Trop.

That serves for amusement or pastime, sportive:

quaestio,

Plin. 7, 53, 54, § 180:

arma,

Sen. Ep. 117, 25:

spectaculum non fidele et lusorium,

id. ib. 80, 2.—

Transf., that is done or given in play; hence, empty, ineffectual, invalid, = irritus:

nomen,

Sen. Ben. 5, 8, 3:

lusorias minas alicui facere,

Dig. 35, 3, 4:

imperium,

ib. 43, 8, 1.—Hence, adv.: lūsōrĭē, playfully, in sport, not in earnest, apparently:

lusorie (causam) agens,

Dig. 30, 1, 50, § 1.

per-do, dĭdi, ditum, 3 (old form of the pres. subj. perduim, Plaut. Aul. 4, 6, 6:

perduis,

id. Am. 2, 2, 215; id. Capt. 3, 5, 70:

perduit,

id. Ep. 1, 1, 64; id. Poen. 3, 4, 29;

but esp. freq., perduint,

Plaut. As. 2, 4, 61; id. Aul. 4, 10, 55; id. Curc. 5, 3, 41; id. Cas. 3, 5, 17; id. Most. 3, 1, 138; id. Men. 2, 2, 34; 3, 1, 6; 5, 5, 31; id. Merc. 4, 3, 11; 4, 4, 53; id. Poen. 3, 2, 33; 4, 2, 41; id. Stich. 4, 2, 15; id. Truc. 2, 3, 10; Ter. Heaut. 4, 6, 7; id. Hec. 3, 4, 27; id. Phorm. 1, 2, 73; Cic. Deiot. 7, 21; id. Att. 15, 4, 3.—As the pass. of perdo, only pereo, perditus, perire appear to be in good use.—The only classical example of a pass. form in the pres. is:

perditur haec inter misero lux non sine votis,

Hor. S. 2, 6, 59 (K. and H. ad loc.), where Lachm., perh. needlessly, reads lux porgitur, the day seems too long for me. —In the pass. perdi, in late Lat.; v. infra), v. a., to make away with; to destroy, ruin; to squander, dissipate, throw away, waste, lose, etc. (class.; syn.: dissipo, perimo, deleo).

Lit.:

aliquem perditum ire,

Plaut. Aul. 4, 10, 5:

Juppiter fruges perdidit,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 45, 131:

funditus civitatem,

id. Att. 6, 1, 5:

se ipsum penitus,

id. Fin. 1, 15, 49:

perdere et affligere cives,

id. Rosc. Am. 12, 33:

perdere et pessundare aliquem,

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 3:

aliquem capitis,

i. e. to charge with a capital offence, id. As. 1, 2, 6; id. Bacch. 3, 3, 86:

sumat, consumat, perdat,

squander, Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 56; so,

perde et peri,

Plaut. Truc. 5, 59:

perdere et profundere,

to waste, Cic. Fam. 5, 5, 3:

perdere tempus,

id. de Or. 3, 36, 146:

operam,

id. Mur. 10, 23; cf.:

oleum et operam,

id. Fam. 7, 1, 3:

Decius amisit vitam: at non perdidit,

Auct. Her. 4, 44, 57:

cur perdis adulescentem nobis? cur amat? Cur potat?

Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 36.—In execrations (very common): di (deaeque omnes) te perduint, may the gods destroy you! See the passages with perduint cited init.—Pass. (late Lat.):

verbis perderis ipse tuis, Prosp. Epigr.: impii de terrā perdentur,

Vulg. Prov. 2, 22: quasi sterquilinium in fine perdetur, id. Job, 20, 7.—

Transf., in gen., to lose utterly or irrecoverably:

eos (liberos),

Cic. Fam. 5, 16, 3:

omnes fructus industriae et fortunae,

id. ib. 4, 6, 2:

litem,

to lose one's cause, id. de Or. 1, 36, 167:

libertatem,

id. Rab. Post. 9, 24:

dextram manum,

Plin. 7, 28, 29, § 104:

memoriam,

Cic. Sen. 7, 21:

causam,

id. Rosc. Com. 4, 11:

spem,

Plaut. Rud. 1, 4, 3:

vitam,

Mart. Spect. 13, 2:

perii hercle! nomen perdidi,

i. e. I have quite forgotten the name, Ter. Phorm. 2, 3, 39.— Pass. (late Lat.):

si principis vita perditur,

Amm. 14, 5, 4; Hor. S. 2, 6, 59 (v. supra).—Of loss at play:

ne perdiderit, non cessat perdere lusor,

Ov. A. A. 1, 451; Juv. 1, 93.—Hence, perdĭtus, a, um, P. a., lost, i. e.,

Hopeless, desperate, ruined, past recovery (class.;

syn. profligatus): perditus sum, i. q. perii,

I am lost! Plaut. Bacch. 5, 1, 6; id. Rud. 5, 1, 3:

per fortunas vide, ne puerum perditum perdamus,

Cic. Fam. 14, 1, 5:

perditus aere alieno,

id. Phil. 2, 32, 78:

lacrimis ac maerore perditus,

id. Mur. 40, 86:

tu omnium mortalium perditissime,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 26, § 64:

rebus omnibus perditis,

id. Caecin. 31, 90:

senatoria judicia,

id. Verr. 1, 3, 8:

valetudo,

id. Tusc. 5, 10, 29.—

In partic., desperately in love; lost, ruined by love ( poet.):

amore haec perdita est,

Plaut. Cist. 1, 2, 13:

in puellā,

Prop. 1, 13, 7:

amor,

Cat. 89, 2.—

Lost in a moral sense, abandoned, corrupt, profligate, flagitious, incorrigible:

adulescens perditus ac dissolutus,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 25, 55:

homo contaminatus, perditus, flagitiosus,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 58, § 134:

abjecti homines et perditi,

id. Mil. 18, 47; id. Cat. 1, 6, 9:

homo perditā nequitiā,

id. Clu. 13, 36:

perdita atque dissoluta consilia,

id. Agr. 2, 20, 55:

luxuriae ac lasciviae perditae,

Suet. Calig. 25:

nihil fieri potest miserius, nihil perditius, nihil foedius,

Cic. Att. 8, 11, 4; id. Q. Fr. 3, 9, 1; Cat. 42, 13.—Hence, sup.:

omnium mortalium perditissimus,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 26, § 65; Just. 21, 5, 5.— Adv.: perdĭtē.

In an abandoned manner, incorrigibly:

se gerere,

Cic. Att. 9, 2, A, 2.—

Desperately, excessively:

amare,

Ter. Phorm. 1, 2, 32:

conari,

Quint. 2, 12, 5.

pīla, ae, f. [perh. for pisula, from root pis-; v. pinso, piso], a mortar (syn. mortarium):

pila, ubi triticum pinsant,

Cato, R. R. 14; Ov. Ib. 573:

zeae granum tunditur in pilā ligneā,

Plin. 18, 11, 29, § 112:

si contuderis stultum in pilā,

Vulg. Prov. 27, 22: sal sordidum in pilā pisatum, Paul. ex Fest. p. 158 Müll.

pīlă, ae, f. [for pigla, from root pag-, pig-, of pango, pe-pig-i, q. v.], a pillar (syn. columna): pila, quae parietem sustentat, ab opponendo dicta est, Paul. ex Fest. p. 204 Müll.:

locavit pilas pontis in Tiberim,

Liv. 40, 51:

salax taberna a pileatis nona fratribus pila, of the temple of Castor and Pollux,

Cat. 37, 1: nulla taberna meos habeat neque pila libellos, i. e. they are not to be publicly sold (as the booksellers had their stalls around the pillars of public buildings), Hor. S. 1, 4, 71; Vitr. 6, 11:

pilas operibus subdere,

Sen. Q. N. 6, 302; Plin. 11, 10, 10, § 23; Mart. 7, 61, 5.—

Transf., a pier or mole of stone:

saxea,

Verg. A. 9, 711; Vitr. 5, 12; Suet. Claud. 20; Sil. 4, 297.

pĭla, ae ( gen. sing. pilaï, Lucr. 5, 713; 720; 726), f. [etym. dub.; perh. akin to Gr. pallô, brandish; Lat. pellere, drive; v. Corss. 1, 525 sqq.], a ball, playing-ball (syn. follis).

Lit.: pilā expulsim ludere, Varr. ap. Non. 104, 29:

di nos quasi pilas homines habent,

Plaut. Capt. prol. 22; id. Most. 1, 2, 73:

pilae studio teneri,

Cic. de Or. 3, 23, 88; Hor. S. 1, 5, 49:

cum lapsa e manibus fugit pila,

Verg. Cir. 149, Prop. 3, 12 (4, 13), 5:

pila cadit aut mittentis vitio, aut accipientis... (pila) jactata et excepta,

Sen. Ben. 2, 17, 3:

pilam scite et diligenter excipere... apte et expedite remittere,

id. ib. 2, 32, 1:

pilam repetere, quae terram contigit,

Petr. 27:

reddere pilam,

Mart. 14, 46, 2. There were four sorts of pilæ:

trigonalis, paganica, follis, harpastum.—Prov.: mea pila est,

I have the ball, I have caught it, I've won, Plaut. Truc. 4, 1, 7:

claudus pilam,

Cic. Pis. 28, 69;

v. claudus: Fortunae pila,

the foot-ball of fortune, Aur. Vict. Epit. 18.—

Transf.

The game of ball:

quantum alii tribuunt alveolo, quantum pilae,

Cic. Arch. 6, 13.—

Of any thing round, a ball or globe of any material:

pilae lanuginis,

Plin. 12, 10, 21, § 38:

scarabaei e fimo ingentes pilas aversi pedibus volutant,

id. 11, 28, 34, § 98.—Of the globe of the earth (ante-class.): in terrae pila, Varr. ap. Non. 333, 25.—The ancients made use of a glass or crystal ball filled with water as a burning-glass:

cum addită aquā vitreae pilae sole adverso in tantum excandescunt, ut vestes exurant,

Plin. 36, 26, 67, § 199; 37, 2, 10, § 28.—The Roman ladies carried a crystal or amber ball to keep their hands cool, Prop. 2, 18, 60 (3, 18, 12); Mart. 11, 8.—Of the ball or lump of earth which adheres to the roots of a bush when torn up, Col. 5, 9. —Of the ballots or bails used by judges in voting, Prop. 4 (5), 11, 19; Ascon. Argum. Milon. fin. —Of stuffed balls or human figures: pilae et effigies viriles et muliebres ex lanā Compitalibus suspendebantur in compitis. quod hunc diem festum esse deorum inferorum quos vocant Lares, putarent: quibus tot pilae, quot capita servorum; tot effigies, quot essent liberi. ponebantur, ut vivis parcerent et essent his pilis et simulacris contenti, Paul. ex Fest. p. 239 Müll. Bulls were baited by throwing similar stuffed figures at their heads, Mart. Spect. 19, 2:

quantus erat cornu, cui pila taurus erat!

id. ib. 9;

hence, sed cui primus erat lusor dum floruit aetas, Nunc postquam desiit ludere prima pila est,

id. ib. 10, 86. As these effigies were usually torn by the throwing, the term is also applied to a torn toga, Mart. 2, 43, 6.—

In partic.:

pilae Nursicae, i. e. rapae rotundae,

Mart. 13, 20, 2.