ludum+dare+alicui

lūdus, i, m. [id.], a play.

Lit.

In gen., a play, game, diversion, pastime:

ad pilam se aut ad talos, aut ad tessaras conferunt, aut etiam novum sibi aliquem excogitant in otio ludum,

Cic. de Or. 3, 15, 58:

datur concessu omnium huic aliqui ludus aetati,

id. Cael. 12, 28:

campestris,

id. ib. 5, 11:

nec lusisse pudet, sed non incidere ludum,

Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 36.—

In partic.

Ludi, public games, plays, spectacles, shows, exhibitions, which were given in honor of the gods, etc.

In gen.:

hoc praetore ludos Apollini faciente,

Cic. Brut. 20, 78:

ludos committere,

id. Q. Fr. 3, 4, 6:

ludos magnificentissimos apparare,

id. ib. 3, 8, 6:

ludos apparatissimos magnificentissimosque facere,

id. Sest. 54, 116:

ludos aspicere,

Ov. F. 6, 238:

ludos persolvere alicui deo,

id. ib. 5, 330: ludis, during the games, Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. 63, 18; Plaut. Cas. prol. 27:

circus maximus ne diebus quidem ludorum Circensium... irrigabatur,

Front. Aq. 97.— Sing.:

haec ultra quid erit, nisi ludus?

Juv. 8, 199.—

In this sense, ludi is freq. in appos. with the neutr. plur. of the adj. which names the games:

ludi Consualia,

Liv. 1, 9, 6:

ludi Cerealia,

id. 30, 39, 8:

ludi Taurilia,

id. 39, 22, 1 (Weissenb. Taurii); 34, 54, 3; cf.:

quaedam faciem soloecismi habent... ut tragoedia Thyestes, ut ludi Floralia ac Megalensia... numquam aliter a veteribus dicta,

Quint. 1, 5, 52; cf.:

ludis Megalensibus,

Gell. 2, 24, 2.—

Also with gen. of place:

eo ipso die auditam esse eam pugnam ludis Olympiae memoriae proditum est,

Cic. N. D. 2, 2, 6.—

Stage-plays (opp. to the games of the circus):

venationes autem ludosque et cum collegā et separatim edidit,

Suet. Caes. 10.—

A place of exercise or practice, a school for elementary instruction and discipline (cf. schola):

in ludum ire,

Plaut. Pers. 2, 1, 6:

fidicinus,

music-school, id. Rud. prol. 43:

litterarius,

id. Merc. 2, 2, 32:

litterarum ludi,

Liv. 3, 44; 6, 25:

ludus discendi,

Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 4, 6:

Dionysius Corinthi dicitur ludum aperuisse,

id. Fam. 9, 18, 1:

Isocrates, cujus e ludo, tamquam ex equo Trojano, meri principes exierunt,

id. de Or. 2, 22, 94; id. Or. 42, 144:

gladiatores, quos ibi Caesar in ludo habebat,

Caes. B. C. 1, 14, 4:

militaris,

Liv. 7, 33, 1:

litterarii paene ista sunt ludi et trivialis scientiae,

Quint. 1, 4, 27:

litterarium ludum exercere,

Tac. A. 3, 66:

obsides quosdam abductos e litterario ludo,

Suet. Calig. 45:

ibi namque (in foro) in tabernis litterarum ludi erant,

Liv. 3, 44, 6:

quem puerum in ludo cognōrat,

Nep. Att. 10, 3:

in Flavī ludum me mittere,

Hor. S. 1, 6, 72; cf. Gell. 15, 11, 2; Suet. Gram. 4; id. Rhet. 1:

sic veniunt ad miscellanea ludi,

Juv. 11, 26.

Transf.

Play, sport, i. e. any thing done, as it were, in play, without trouble, mere sport, child's play:

oratio ludus est homini non hebeti,

Cic. de Or. 2, 17, 72:

cum illa perdiscere ludus esset,

id. Fin. 1, 8, 27:

quibus (Graecis) jusjurandum jocus est, testimonium ludus,

id. Fl. 5, 12.—

Sport, jest, joke, fun: si vis videre ludos [p. 1084] jucundissimos, Plaut. Poen. 1, 1, 78:

ad honores per ludum et per neglegentiam pervenire,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 70, § 181:

aliquem per ludum et jocum evertere,

id. ib. 2, 1, 60, §

155: amoto quaeramus seria ludo,

Hor. S. 1, 1, 27:

vertere seria ludo,

id. A. P. 226:

nil per ludum simulabitur,

Juv. 6, 324:

ut ludos facit,

Ter. Phorm. 5, 7, 52: ludos facere aliquem, to make sport of, make game of, to banter, jeer at, mock:

ut nunc is te ludos facit,

Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 47:

quem, senecta aetate, ludos facias,

id. Aul. 2, 2, 74.— With dat.:

miris modis dī ludos faciunt hominibus,

Plaut. Rud. 3, 1, 1; id. Truc. 4, 2, 46.—In pass.:

ludos fieri,

Plaut. Ps. 4, 7, 72:

hocine me aetatis ludos vis factum esse indigne?

id. Bacch. 5, 1, 4: ludos aliquem dimittere, to send one away with scorn and derision, or, as in Engl., to send one off with a flea in his ear:

numquam hercle quisquam me lenonem dixerit, si te non ludos pessimos dimisero,

id. Rud. 3, 5, 11:

ludos facis me,

id. Am. 2, 1, 21: facere ludos aliquid, to make a jest or a trifle of any thing, to throw away, to lose:

nunc et operam ludos facit, et retia, etc.,

id. Rud. 4, 1, 9:

ludos dare, praebere,

to make one's self ridiculous, Ter. Eun. 5, 7, 9:

ludos alicui reddere,

to play tricks on, id. And. 3, 1, 21: dare ludum alicui, to give play to one, i. e. to humor, indulge, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 10, 7; id. Cas. prol. 25; id. Bacch. 4, 10, 9:

amori dare ludum,

Hor. C. 3, 12, 1: ludus aetatis, the pleasures of love:

si frui liceret ludo aetatis, praesertim recto et legitimo amore,

Liv. 26, 50.—

Ludus, the title of a work of Nævius:

ut est in Naevii Ludo,

Cic. de Sen. 6, 20; Fest. s. v. redhostire, p. 270, 22 Müll.—Also, Ludus de Morte Claudii, a work of Seneca.

ămor (old form ămŏs, like honos, labos, colos, etc., Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 2; v. Neue, Formenl. I. p. 170), ōris, m. [amo], love (to friends, parents, etc.; and also in a low sense; hence in gen., like amo, while caritas, like diligere, is esteem, regard, etc.; hence amor is used also of brutes, but caritas only of men; v amo init.):

Amicitiae caritate et amore cernuntur. Nam cum deorum, tum parentum, patriaeque cultus, eorumque hominum, qui aut sapientiā aut opibus excellunt, ad caritatem referri solet. Conjuges autem et liberi et fratres et alii, quos usus familiaritasque conjunxit, quamquam etiam caritate ipsā, tamen amore maxime continentur,

Cic. Part. Or. 25, 88; cf. id. ib. 16, 56; Doed. Syn. IV. p. 100 (but amor is related to benevolentia as the cause to the effect, since benevolentia designates only an external, friendly treatment; but amor a real, internal love):

amor, ex quo amicitia nominata, princeps est ad benevolentiam conjungendam,

Cic. Am. 8, 26:

nihil enim est, quod studio et benevolentiā, vel amore potius effici non possit,

id. Fam. 3, 9; cf. Doed. Syn. IV. p. 105 (very freq. in all periods, and in every kind of style; in a low sense most freq. in the com. and eleg. poets, Petron., and similar authors; v. amo init.); constr. with in, erga, or the obj. gen. (with the gen. of the gerund, never in Cic., and perh. in no prose writer; but it is so found in Lucr., Ovid, and Hor.).

Lit.: ab his initiis noster in te amor profectus, Cic. Fam. 13, 29:

si quid in te residet amoris erga me,

id. ib. 5, 5:

amori nostro (i. e. quo a te amamur) plusculum etiam, quam concedit veritas, largiare,

id. ib. 5, 12;

Postquam primus amor deceptam morte fefellit,

Verg. A. 4, 17:

amabilis super amorem mulierum,

Vulg. 2 Reg. 1, 26: in paternitatis amore, brotherly love (Gr. philadelphia), ib. 1 Pet. 1, 22; ib. 2 Pet. 1, 7 bis:

amplecti aliquem amore,

Cic. Att. 7, 1:

habere amorem erga aliquem,

id. ib. 9, 14:

respondere amori amore,

id. ib. 15, 21:

conciliare amorem alicui,

id. de Or. 2, 51 et saep.—Of sexual love, whether lawful or unlawful: Medea amore saevo saucia, Enn. Med. ap. Auct. ad Her. 2, 22 (as a transl. of the Gr. erôti thumon ekplageis Iasonos, Eur. Med. prol. 8):

videbantur illi (septem anni) pauci dies prae amoris magnitudine,

Vulg. Gen. 29, 20; 29, 30:

is amore projecticiam illam deperit,

Plaut. Cist. 1, 3, 43:

amore perdita est,

id. Mil. 4, 6, 38:

in amore haec omnia sunt vitia,

Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 14:

aeterno devictus volnere amoris,

Lucr. 1, 35:

qui vitat amorem,

id. 4, 1069:

Nec te noster amor tenet?

Verg. A. 4, 307; 4, 395; Ov. M. 4, 256:

ne sit ancillae tibi amor pudori,

Hor. C. 2, 4, 1:

meretricis amore Sollicitus,

id. S. 2, 3, 252:

ut majus esset odium amore, quo ante dilexerat,

Vulg. 2 Reg. 13, 15:

ambo vulnerati amore ejus,

ib. Dan. 13, 10 al. —In both significations also in the plur.:

amores hominum in te,

Cic. Att. 5, 10:

amores sancti,

id. Fin. 3, 20, 68; cf. id. Tusc. 4, 34, 72:

Ille meos, primus qui me sibi junxit, amores Abstulit,

Verg. A. 4, 28:

est is mihi in amoribus, i. e. valde a me amatur,

Cic. Fam. 7, 32:

meos amores eloquar,

Plaut. Merc. 1, 1, 2:

meretricii amores,

Ter. And. 5, 4, 10:

quem amore venerio dilexerat,

Nep. Paus. 4, 1:

amores et hae deliciae, quae vocantur,

Cic. Cael. 19:

quando Dido tantos rumpi non speret amores,

Verg. A. 4, 292:

Tabuit ex illo dementer amoribus usa,

Ov. M. 4, 259:

insanos fateamur amores,

id. ib. 9, 519 et saep.; Hor. C. 3, 21, 3 et saep.—

Meton.

For the beloved object itself:

amores et deliciae tuae,

Cic. Div. 1, 36;

Pompeius, nostri amores,

id. Att. 2, 19; 16, 6;

and ironic.: sed redeo ad amores deliciasque nostras, L. Antonium,

id. Phil. 6, 5; Plaut. Poen. 1, 1, 79; Ov. M. 1, 617; 4, 137 al.—

Personified: Amor, the god of love, Love, Cupid, Erôs:

O praeclaram emendatricem vitae poëticam, quae Amorem flagitii et levitatis auctorem in concilio deorum collocandum putet,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 32, 69:

Deum esse Amorem turpis et vitio favens finxit libido,

Sen. Phaedr. 195: Illum conjugem, quem Amor dederat, qui plus pollet potiorque est patre, vet. poët. ap. Cic. Tusc. 4, 32, 69:

Omnia vincit Amor, et nos cedamus Amori,

Verg. E. 10, 69:

Improbe Amor, quid non mortalia corpora cogis?

id. A. 4, 412:

Paret Amor dictis carae genetricis,

id. ib. 1, 689:

Amor non talia curat,

id. E. 10, 28:

nec quid Amor curat,

Ov. M. 1, 480:

Amori dare ludum,

Hor. C. 3, 12, 1; Prop. 1, 2, 8:

non tot sagittis, Spicula quot nostro pectore fixit Amor,

id. 3, 4, 2:

pharetratus,

Ov. Tr. 5, 1, 22:

Notaque purpureus tela resumit Amor,

id. Am. 2, 9, 34:

movit Amor gemmatas aureus alas,

id. R. Am. 39 et saep.—Also in the plur., Cupids, Loves:

corpora nudorum Amorum,

Ov. M. 10, 516:

lascivi Amores,

Hor. C. 2, 11, 7:

parvi Amores,

Prop. 3, 1, 11:

Amores volucres,

Ov. Ep. 16, 201:

pharetrati,

id. R. Am. 519 al. —

A strong, passionate longing for something, desire, lust:

consulatūs amor,

Cic. Sull. 26, 73:

gloriae,

id. Arch. 11, 28:

amicitiae,

id. Tusc. 4, 33, 70:

lactis,

Verg. G. 3, 394:

vini,

Liv. 9, 18:

auri,

Verg. A. 1, 349:

argenti,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 78:

nummi,

Juv. 14, 138:

laudum,

Verg. A. 9, 197 et saep.:

cognitionis,

Cic. Fin. 4, 7, 18.—With gerund:

edundi,

Lucr. 4, 870:

habendi,

Ov. M. 1, 131, and Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 85:

scribendi,

id. S. 2, 1, 10.— Poet., with inf.:

si tantus amor casus cognoscere nostros,

Verg. A. 2, 10:

seu rore pudico Castaliae flavos amor est tibi mergere crines,

Stat. Th. 1, 698.—

Poet., a love-charm, philtre:

quaeritur et nascentis equi de fronte revolsus Et matri praereptus amor,

Verg. A. 4, 516; upon which passage Serv. remarks: Secundum Plinium, qui dicit in Naturali Historiā (8, 42, 66, § 163 sqq.) pullos equinos habere in fronte quandam carnem, quam eis statim natis adimit mater; quam si quis forte [p. 109] praeripuerit, odit pullum et lac ei denegat; v. hippomanes.