Ludus, ludi, m, g. Cic.Play in actes: mirth in wordes: sporte: game: pastime.Campestris ludus, vide CAMPVS.Consimilis ludus.Terent.Alike pranke.Tempestinum pueris concedere ludum. Hor. Dare alicui operam ludo. Plau. To play or pastime with one.Ducere noctem ludo.Virg.To play al night long.Gaudens ludis. Hora. Ludus genuit certamen & iram. Horat. Play bred content on and anger.Incidere ludum. Horat. To leaue off game or play. Ludus in singula. Ausconius. A schoole or place of exercise where any feate is learncd.Ludus gladiatorius. Suet. A schoole of fence.Ludus grammatices.Cic.A grammer schoole.Ludus literarum Plin.A schoole of learning.Ludus literarius, Idem. Quint. Ludus discendi, non lusionis.Cic.A playe to learne and not to play in.Ludus. & pueritiæ disciplina. Cicer.Trayning vp in studie, and such learning as is meete for children and youth.Ludum aperire.Cic.To beginne to keepe a schoole.Ludus est, illa perdiscere.Cic.It is a pastime to learne, &c. Ludus, pro ioco accipitur quandoque.Terent.Iesting t wordes: sporte.-ludum, iocúmque Dices fuisse illum alterum, præut huius rabies quæ dabit. Terentius. Thou wilt saye the other was but a sest and sport, &c.-si imparatum in veris nuptijs Adortus esset, quos mihi ludos redderet.Terent.What prankes or pageants would he haue played me:Vt ludos facit.Terent.How he is disposed to mocke, ieste, or dallie.Ludos aliquem facere. Plau. To dally and scoffe at one: to make a mocking stocke.Noui iam ludum.Plaut.I perceiue now the pageant.Operam ludos facere.Plaut.To leese his labour.Dare ludum amori. Horat. To passe the time in lone.Druso ludus est suggerendus.Cic.We must play some preaty pranke or feate with Drusus. Ludo, ablatiuus.Virg.In sporte or pastime. Ludi, in plurali.Cic.Common games, fightes, or pageantes to delight the people.Celebres ludi.Ouid. Viles ludi. Hora. Apparare ludos. Cicero. To make prouision for games or sightes. Celebrare dies festos ludorum. Cic.Committere ludos.Cic.To beginne the games or sightes.Conde corare ludos, Vide CONDECORO.Edere ludos.Tacit.To setfoorth games or sightes.Facere ludos Plin.Facere ludos Apollini. Cicero. To make games or solemne fightes to the honour of Apollo.Instituere ludos. Quint. Ludi Circenses, Running with chariots in the great compasfed place in Rome called Circus. Ludi compitalitij.Playes made in highwaies to the honour of Bacchus.Ludi Florales.Abhominable playes in Rome to the honour of their strumpetlike Goddesse Flora, in whiche common women played naked, with wanton wordes and gestures.Ludi gladiatorij.Games of swordplayers fighting wythout harnesse, and in the sight of the people indenouring eche to kill other: a spectacle of crueltie to harden the peoples hearts against killing in warre.Ludi gymnici.Erercises of running, leaping, throwing the dart, and wrastling.Ludi lupercales Games, wherein yong gentlemen naked and haning whips in their handes, rame aboute laughing and beating al that they mette.Ludi Megalenses.Playes made to the honour of the mother of the Gods.
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lūdor, ōris, m. [ludo], a player, Schol. ad Juv. 6, 105.
lūdus, i, m. [id.], a play.I.Lit.A. 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.—B. In partic. 1. Ludi, public games, plays, spectacles, shows, exhibitions, which were given in honor of the gods, etc. (a). 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.—(b). 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.—(g). Also with gen. of place: eo ipso die auditam esse eam pugnam ludis Olympiae memoriae proditum est, Cic. N. D. 2, 2, 6.—2.Stage-plays (opp. to the games of the circus): venationes autem ludosque et cum collegā et separatim edidit, Suet. Caes. 10.—C.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.II.Transf.A.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.— B.Sport, jest, joke, fun: si vis videre ludos 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.—C. 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.