sportive+f+de

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lascīvus, a, um, adj. [Sanscr. lash-āmi, desire; las-āmi, play; Gr. la- in laô, lilaiomai; cf. Goth. lustus; also Lat. largus], wanton, petulant, sportive, playful, frolicsome, frisky, (syn.: petulans, procax).

In a good sense: nova proles, * Lucr. 1, 260:

capella,

Verg. E. 2, 64:

puella,

id. ib. 3, 64:

pueri,

Hor. S. 1, 3, 134:

Amores,

id. C. 2, 11, 7:

currumque sequuntur matris lascivo sidera fulva choro,

Tib. 2, 1, 88:

tenero lascivior haedo,

Ov. M. 13, 791:

aetas,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 216:

hederae,

wanton, luxuriant, id. C. 1, 36, 20:

acus,

for ornamenting the hair, a hair-pin, Mart. 11, 45, 6; cf. Tert. Verg. Vel. 12:

tristia maestum Vultum verba decent.... Ludentem lasciva,

sportive, playful, Hor. A. P. 107; cf.:

quod dicitur, aut est lascivum et hilare aut contumeliosum,

Quint. 6, 3, 27:

ad quod (caput aselli) lascivi ludebant ruris alumni,

Juv. 11, 98. —

In a bad sense, licentious, lewd, lustful, lascivious, Varr. R. R. 1, 14: Siculi, ut sunt lascivi et dicaces, Cael. ap. Quint. 6, 3, 41:

puellae,

lascivious, Ov. A. A. 1, 523:

femur,

id. Am. 3, 7, 10:

libelli,

lewd, Mart. 5, 2, 5; cf.:

tabellis ac sigillis lascivissimarum picturarum et figurarum,

Suet. Tib. 43.—

Trop., of style, licentious, luxuriant, overloaded with ornament; oratio, Gell. 12, 2, 9; cf.: illud lascivum zôê kai psuchê, Juv. 6, 194.—Hence, adv. in two forms.

lascīvē, wantonly, lasciviously (post-class.):

loqui,

licentiously, Mart. 8 init.:

versus facere,

App. Mag. p. 278, 31. — Comp.:

lascivius,

Avien. Arat. 514.—

lascīvĭter, wantonly, petulantly: ludere, Laev. ap. Charis. p. 183 P.

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anser, ĕris, usu. m. [Sanscr. hasas; Gr. chên; Germ. Gans; Engl. Gander; Erse, goss = goose] (f., Varr. R. R. 3, 10, 3; Col. 8, 14, 4; cf. Schneid. Gram. II. p. 7; Bentl. ad Hor. S. 2, 8, 88; Neue, Formenl. I. p. 612 sq.), a goose; sacred to Juno, and which preserved the Capitol in the Gallic war. Hence held in high honor by the Romans, Liv. 5, 47; Cic. Rosc. Am. 20; Plin. 10, 22, 26, § 81 al.—Anser Amyclaeus, the swan, into which Jupiter changed himself at Amyclœ, Verg. Cir. 488.

Anser, ĕris, m., a petulant and obscene poet (Ov. Tr. 2, 435), a friend of the triumvir Antonius, who presented him with an estate at Falernum (Cic. Phil. 13, 5). Acc. to Servius, Virgil makes a sportive allusion to him in Ecl. 9, 36: argutos inter strepere anser olores; cf.:

ore canorus Anseris indocto carmine cessit olor,

Prop. 3, 32, 84, and Weich. Poet. Lat. pp. 159-167.

anser, ĕris, usu. m. [Sanscr. hasas; Gr. chên; Germ. Gans; Engl. Gander; Erse, goss = goose] (f., Varr. R. R. 3, 10, 3; Col. 8, 14, 4; cf. Schneid. Gram. II. p. 7; Bentl. ad Hor. S. 2, 8, 88; Neue, Formenl. I. p. 612 sq.), a goose; sacred to Juno, and which preserved the Capitol in the Gallic war. Hence held in high honor by the Romans, Liv. 5, 47; Cic. Rosc. Am. 20; Plin. 10, 22, 26, § 81 al.—Anser Amyclaeus, the swan, into which Jupiter changed himself at Amyclœ, Verg. Cir. 488.

Anser, ĕris, m., a petulant and obscene poet (Ov. Tr. 2, 435), a friend of the triumvir Antonius, who presented him with an estate at Falernum (Cic. Phil. 13, 5). Acc. to Servius, Virgil makes a sportive allusion to him in Ecl. 9, 36: argutos inter strepere anser olores; cf.:

ore canorus Anseris indocto carmine cessit olor,

Prop. 3, 32, 84, and Weich. Poet. Lat. pp. 159-167.

Fescennĭa, ae, f. (also Fescennĭ-um, ii, n., Serv. Verg. A. 7, 695), an ancient but small city of Etruria, on the Tiber, not far from Falerii, famous for a sort of sportive and jeering dialogues in verse named after it, Plin. 3, 5, 8, § 52; Serv. l. l.; v. Dennis, Etrur. 1, p. 152 sq. (acc. to Gell. and Müll. the modern Civita Castellana; acc. to Dennis, near Borghetto).—

Deriv.: Fescennīnus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Fescennia, Fescennine:

acies,

Verg. A. 7, 695:

Fescennina per hunc inventa licentia morem Versibus alternis opprobria rustica fudit,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 145:

versus,

Liv. 7, 2, 7; Paul. ex Fest. p. 85 Müll.:

locutio,

Cat. 61, 127:

materia,

Sid. Ep. 8, 11:

pes,

i. e. an amphimacer, Diom. p. 475 P.— Subst.: Fescennīni, ōrum, m., Fescennine verses, Fescennines, Macr. S. 2, 4:

nuptiales,

Sen. Contr. 3, 21 med. p. 252 Bip.; Plin. 15, 22, 24, § 86.—Also. Fescen-nīna, ōrum, n. (sc. carmina, Prud. Cont. Symm. 1, 261; Mart. Cap. 9, § 914 (the derivation of these Fescennini from fascinum seems improbable).—

Transf., Fe-scennīnus, i, m., a lampooner: spatiator atque Fescenninus, Cato ap. Fest. s. v. spatiatorem, p. 344 Müll.; Macr. S. 2, 10, 9.

Fescennĭa, ae, f. (also Fescennĭ-um, ii, n., Serv. Verg. A. 7, 695), an ancient but small city of Etruria, on the Tiber, not far from Falerii, famous for a sort of sportive and jeering dialogues in verse named after it, Plin. 3, 5, 8, § 52; Serv. l. l.; v. Dennis, Etrur. 1, p. 152 sq. (acc. to Gell. and Müll. the modern Civita Castellana; acc. to Dennis, near Borghetto).—

Deriv.: Fescennīnus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Fescennia, Fescennine:

acies,

Verg. A. 7, 695:

Fescennina per hunc inventa licentia morem Versibus alternis opprobria rustica fudit,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 145:

versus,

Liv. 7, 2, 7; Paul. ex Fest. p. 85 Müll.:

locutio,

Cat. 61, 127:

materia,

Sid. Ep. 8, 11:

pes,

i. e. an amphimacer, Diom. p. 475 P.— Subst.: Fescennīni, ōrum, m., Fescennine verses, Fescennines, Macr. S. 2, 4:

nuptiales,

Sen. Contr. 3, 21 med. p. 252 Bip.; Plin. 15, 22, 24, § 86.—Also. Fescen-nīna, ōrum, n. (sc. carmina, Prud. Cont. Symm. 1, 261; Mart. Cap. 9, § 914 (the derivation of these Fescennini from fascinum seems improbable).—

Transf., Fe-scennīnus, i, m., a lampooner: spatiator atque Fescenninus, Cato ap. Fest. s. v. spatiatorem, p. 344 Müll.; Macr. S. 2, 10, 9.

Fescennĭa, ae, f. (also Fescennĭ-um, ii, n., Serv. Verg. A. 7, 695), an ancient but small city of Etruria, on the Tiber, not far from Falerii, famous for a sort of sportive and jeering dialogues in verse named after it, Plin. 3, 5, 8, § 52; Serv. l. l.; v. Dennis, Etrur. 1, p. 152 sq. (acc. to Gell. and Müll. the modern Civita Castellana; acc. to Dennis, near Borghetto).—

Deriv.: Fescennīnus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Fescennia, Fescennine:

acies,

Verg. A. 7, 695:

Fescennina per hunc inventa licentia morem Versibus alternis opprobria rustica fudit,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 145:

versus,

Liv. 7, 2, 7; Paul. ex Fest. p. 85 Müll.:

locutio,

Cat. 61, 127:

materia,

Sid. Ep. 8, 11:

pes,

i. e. an amphimacer, Diom. p. 475 P.— Subst.: Fescennīni, ōrum, m., Fescennine verses, Fescennines, Macr. S. 2, 4:

nuptiales,

Sen. Contr. 3, 21 med. p. 252 Bip.; Plin. 15, 22, 24, § 86.—Also. Fescen-nīna, ōrum, n. (sc. carmina, Prud. Cont. Symm. 1, 261; Mart. Cap. 9, § 914 (the derivation of these Fescennini from fascinum seems improbable).—

Transf., Fe-scennīnus, i, m., a lampooner: spatiator atque Fescenninus, Cato ap. Fest. s. v. spatiatorem, p. 344 Müll.; Macr. S. 2, 10, 9.

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.

lascīvĭo, ĭi, ītum, 4, v. n. [lascivus], to be wanton, petulant, sportive, to sport, frisk, frolic (not freq. till after the Aug. per.).

Lit.: licet lascivire, dum nihil metuas, *Cic. Rep. 1, 40, 63:

Ap. Claudius ait, lascivire magis plebem quam saevire,

Liv. 2, 29, 9:

licentiam lasciviendi permittere militi,

Suet. Caes. 67:

eo principio lascivire miles,

Tac. A. 1, 16:

exsilit agnus Lascivitque fuga,

and wantonly frisks away, Ov. M. 7, 321; cf. Col. 6, 24:

angues... lascivientium piscium modo exsultasse,

Liv. 27, 5. — Poet.:

dextera lascivit caesa Tegeatide capra (of the Luperci, who wantonly struck at passers-by),

Sil. 13, 329:

ferratus lascivit apex,

Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2, 145:

quis lascivit aquis et ab aethere ludit,

Mart. 4, 3, 7. —Esp.:

in Venerem,

to be lascivious, Col. 6, 24, 2.—

Trop., to indulge in license of language or style (a favorite expression of Quintilian):

lascivimus syntonorum modis saltitantes,

Quint. 9, 4, 142; cf. id. 11, 1, 56:

toto et rerum et verborum et compositionis genere lasciviunt,

id. 4, 2, 39:

puerilibus sententiolis,

id. 12, 10, 73; cf. id. 9, 4, 28; 9, 4, 6:

Ovidius lascivire in Metamorphosesi solet,

Quint. 4, 1, 77.

lūdĭbundus, a, um, adj. [ludo], playful, sportive, frolicsome, wanton.

Lit.:

Sic palliolatim amictus hac incessi ludibundus,

Plaut. Ps. 5, 1, 30:

milites ita ludibundi Beneventum rediere, ut ab epulis reverti viderentur,

Liv. 24, 16:

circum vicos vagabatur ludibundus,

Suet. Ner. 26:

oculi ludibundi atque illecebrae voluptatisque plenae,

Gell. 3, 5, 2.—

Transf., playing, easily, without danger:

caelo sereno in Italiam ludibundi pervenimus,

Cic. Fam. 16, 9, 2:

si Vulteium habebis, omnia ludibundus conficies,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 67, § 156.

lūdĭcer or lūdī̆crus ( nom. sing. m. is not used), cra, crum, adj. [ludus], that serves for sport, done in sport, sportive:

ars,

Plaut. Aul. 4, 3, 3:

exercitatio,

Cic. N. D. 1, 37, 102:

sermones,

id. Ac. 2, 2, 6:

ludicrae artes sunt, quae ad voluptatem oculorum atque aurium tendunt,

Sen. Ep. 88, 22:

ludicras partes sustinere,

to appear on the stage, Suet. Ner. 11:

certamen,

Vell. 1, 8, 1:

tibiae,

which were played in the theatre, Plin. 16, 36, 66, § 172:

in modum ludicrum,

Tac. A. 14. 14: versus et cetera ludicra pono, [p. 1083] Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 10:

quibus (juvenibus) id ludicrum est,

Tac. G. 24:

solemnibus epulis ludicra,

id. A. 1, 50:

hac lege excipiuntur qui artem ludicram faciunt,

actors, Paul. Sent. 5, 26, 2; so,

quae artem ludicram fecerit,

Ulp. Fragm. 13, 1 sq. —Hence, lūdī̆crum, i, n.

A show, public games; a scenic show, stage-play:

Olympiorum solemne ludicrum,

Liv. 28, 7, 14:

Isthmiorum statum ludicrum aderat,

id. 33, 32, 1; 34, 41, 1:

iisdem fere diebus sollemne erat ludicrum Isthmiorum,

Curt. 4, 5, 11:

indulserat ei ludicro Augustus,

Suet. Aug. 43:

coronae ludicro quaesitae,

won in the public games, Plin. 21, 3, 5, § 7; cf.:

quid maris extremos Arabas ditantis et Indos, Ludicra quid, etc.,

Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 7 Orell. ad loc.—

A sport, toy, means of sport:

quos (ramulos) Hamadryades deae ludicrum sibi rosido nutriunt umore,

Cat. 61, 24; cf.:

urbes duae, quae in proverbii ludicrum vertere, Apina et Trica,

sport, Plin. 3, 11, 16, § 104.— Plur.:

et versus et cetera ludicra pono,

trifles, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 10; cf. K. and H. ad Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 7.— Hence, adv.: lūdī̆crē, in sport, playfully (ante- and post-class.): pars ludicre saxa jactant, Enn. ap. Non. 134, 14 (Ann. v. 76 Vahl.):

tractare aliquem,

App. M. 9, 7; 220, 15.

lūdĭcer or lūdī̆crus ( nom. sing. m. is not used), cra, crum, adj. [ludus], that serves for sport, done in sport, sportive:

ars,

Plaut. Aul. 4, 3, 3:

exercitatio,

Cic. N. D. 1, 37, 102:

sermones,

id. Ac. 2, 2, 6:

ludicrae artes sunt, quae ad voluptatem oculorum atque aurium tendunt,

Sen. Ep. 88, 22:

ludicras partes sustinere,

to appear on the stage, Suet. Ner. 11:

certamen,

Vell. 1, 8, 1:

tibiae,

which were played in the theatre, Plin. 16, 36, 66, § 172:

in modum ludicrum,

Tac. A. 14. 14: versus et cetera ludicra pono, [p. 1083] Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 10:

quibus (juvenibus) id ludicrum est,

Tac. G. 24:

solemnibus epulis ludicra,

id. A. 1, 50:

hac lege excipiuntur qui artem ludicram faciunt,

actors, Paul. Sent. 5, 26, 2; so,

quae artem ludicram fecerit,

Ulp. Fragm. 13, 1 sq. —Hence, lūdī̆crum, i, n.

A show, public games; a scenic show, stage-play:

Olympiorum solemne ludicrum,

Liv. 28, 7, 14:

Isthmiorum statum ludicrum aderat,

id. 33, 32, 1; 34, 41, 1:

iisdem fere diebus sollemne erat ludicrum Isthmiorum,

Curt. 4, 5, 11:

indulserat ei ludicro Augustus,

Suet. Aug. 43:

coronae ludicro quaesitae,

won in the public games, Plin. 21, 3, 5, § 7; cf.:

quid maris extremos Arabas ditantis et Indos, Ludicra quid, etc.,

Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 7 Orell. ad loc.—

A sport, toy, means of sport:

quos (ramulos) Hamadryades deae ludicrum sibi rosido nutriunt umore,

Cat. 61, 24; cf.:

urbes duae, quae in proverbii ludicrum vertere, Apina et Trica,

sport, Plin. 3, 11, 16, § 104.— Plur.:

et versus et cetera ludicra pono,

trifles, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 10; cf. K. and H. ad Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 7.— Hence, adv.: lūdī̆crē, in sport, playfully (ante- and post-class.): pars ludicre saxa jactant, Enn. ap. Non. 134, 14 (Ann. v. 76 Vahl.):

tractare aliquem,

App. M. 9, 7; 220, 15.

lūdĭcer or lūdī̆crus ( nom. sing. m. is not used), cra, crum, adj. [ludus], that serves for sport, done in sport, sportive:

ars,

Plaut. Aul. 4, 3, 3:

exercitatio,

Cic. N. D. 1, 37, 102:

sermones,

id. Ac. 2, 2, 6:

ludicrae artes sunt, quae ad voluptatem oculorum atque aurium tendunt,

Sen. Ep. 88, 22:

ludicras partes sustinere,

to appear on the stage, Suet. Ner. 11:

certamen,

Vell. 1, 8, 1:

tibiae,

which were played in the theatre, Plin. 16, 36, 66, § 172:

in modum ludicrum,

Tac. A. 14. 14: versus et cetera ludicra pono, [p. 1083] Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 10:

quibus (juvenibus) id ludicrum est,

Tac. G. 24:

solemnibus epulis ludicra,

id. A. 1, 50:

hac lege excipiuntur qui artem ludicram faciunt,

actors, Paul. Sent. 5, 26, 2; so,

quae artem ludicram fecerit,

Ulp. Fragm. 13, 1 sq. —Hence, lūdī̆crum, i, n.

A show, public games; a scenic show, stage-play:

Olympiorum solemne ludicrum,

Liv. 28, 7, 14:

Isthmiorum statum ludicrum aderat,

id. 33, 32, 1; 34, 41, 1:

iisdem fere diebus sollemne erat ludicrum Isthmiorum,

Curt. 4, 5, 11:

indulserat ei ludicro Augustus,

Suet. Aug. 43:

coronae ludicro quaesitae,

won in the public games, Plin. 21, 3, 5, § 7; cf.:

quid maris extremos Arabas ditantis et Indos, Ludicra quid, etc.,

Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 7 Orell. ad loc.—

A sport, toy, means of sport:

quos (ramulos) Hamadryades deae ludicrum sibi rosido nutriunt umore,

Cat. 61, 24; cf.:

urbes duae, quae in proverbii ludicrum vertere, Apina et Trica,

sport, Plin. 3, 11, 16, § 104.— Plur.:

et versus et cetera ludicra pono,

trifles, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 10; cf. K. and H. ad Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 7.— Hence, adv.: lūdī̆crē, in sport, playfully (ante- and post-class.): pars ludicre saxa jactant, Enn. ap. Non. 134, 14 (Ann. v. 76 Vahl.):

tractare aliquem,

App. M. 9, 7; 220, 15.