Alludo, allûdis, allûsi. allûsum, pen. prod. allúdere. Plin. To speake that hath some respect or resemblance to a thing: to speake mearily: to scoffe at priuily and meatily: to smile vpon: to fauour. Alludit vnda. Plin. Piscis alludens natantibus.Plin. iun.Playeth to them that swimme, or maketh gesture of playing.Alludere ad mulierem.Terent.To icst or scosse at priuily.Alludere philosophiæ. Sen. Alludere. Sen. Quum tibi alludit huius vitæ prosperitas. When prosperous fortune fawneth vpon thee.Alludentes vndæ.Ouid.Waues wallowing softly, and as it were playing, not stirring tempestuously.Tripolium in maritimis nascirur sapis, vbi alludit vnda, neque in mari, neque in sicco. Plin. Where the water beateth now and then.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
al-lūdo (adl-), ūsi, ūsum, 3, v. a. and n.I.To play or sport with any thing, to joke, jest, to do a thing sportively; with ad or dat. (most freq. after the Aug. per.; never in Plaut.; and in Ter. and in Cic. only once), Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 34: Galba autem adludens (discoursing in jests) varie et copiose multas similitudines adferre, Cic. de Or. 1, 56, 240: occupato, Phaedr. 3, 19 fin.; Ov. M. 2, 864: nec plura adludens, Verg. A. 7, 117: Cicero Trebatio adludens,
jesting with
, Quint. 3, 11, 18 Spald., Halm; so Suet. Caes. 22 al.—II.Trop., of the motion, A. Of the waves, to sport with, to play against, dash upon: mare terram appetens litoribus adludit, Cic. N. D. 2, 39, 100: solebat Aquilius, quid esset litus, ita definire, quā fluctus adluderet (B. and K. read eluderet; v. eludo), id. Top. 7, 32; cf. Quint. 5, 14, 34: in adludentibus undis, Ov. M. 4, 342.—With acc.: omnia, quae ... fluctus salis adludebant, Cat. 64, 66.—B. Of the wind, to play with: summa cacumina silvae lenibus adludit flabris levis Auster, Val. Fl. 6, 664: tremens Adludit patulis arbor hiatibus, Sen. Thyest. 157.