Oblecto, oblectas, oblectâre, Frequentatiuum est ab Oblicio quod ex ob & latio componitur. To delight: to recreate: to take pleasure in a thing: to put all his felicitie and delight in a thing.Aliquem falso gaudio oblectare.Plaut.To bring in a fooles paradice: to make glad in vaiue.Fabula valde oblectat populum. Horar. Senectutem oblectant hæc studia.Cic.These studies delight or recreate olde age.Sordido pane vitam oblectabas.Plaut.Me te oblectes. Ter. Put thy delight in me: let all thy felieitie be in ine onely.Qui se agri cultione oblectabant.Cic.Which did put their delight and felicitie in husbandrie.Musæ me oblectant dulci carmine. Catul. Rura oblectantanimos.Ouid.Vbi te oblectasti tam diu. Ter. Where haue you passed your time, or solated your selfe all this long while.Oblecta te cum Cicerone nostro qum bellifsimè.Cic.Recreate or delight your selfe with.In eo me oblecto, solum id est oharum mihi.Terent.In that I put my chiefe delight and pleasure.Se oblectare in hortis.Cic.To recreate.Tempus oblectare studio.Ouid.Oblector hac re, Passiuum. Ci. In communibus miserijs hac tamen oblectabat specula. Ludis oblectari & duci.Cic.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ob-lecto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [2. lacto], to delight, please, divert, entertain, amuse (class.; most freq. with se and mid.; syn. delecto); constr. usually aliquem (aliquid, se), with abl., with cum, with in and abl.(a). With abl.: ut quam diutissime te jucundā opinione oblectarem, Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 1, 1: cum eorum inventis scriptisque se oblectent, id. Rep. 1, 17, 28: se agri cultione, id. Sen. 16, 56; Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 115: aliquem falso gaudio, Plaut. Poen. 5, 4, 102: Musae me oblectant carmine, Cat. 66, 8.—With an impers. object: legentium animos fictis oblectare, Tac. H. 2, 50; so, ironically: paulum praesidii, qui familiarem suam vitam oblectet modo,
cheer, comfort
, Plaut. Pers. 1, 3, 46: vitam sordido pane, id. As. 1, 2, 16.—Mid.: in communibus miseriis hac tamen oblectabar speculā, Cic. Fam. 2, 16, 5: ludis oblectamur, id. Mur. 19, 39.—(b). With cum: oblecta te cum Cicerone quam bellissime, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 13, 4: cum his me oblecto, qui res gestas scripserunt, id. de Or. 2, 14, 61; cf. elliptically: ego me interea cum libellis, id. Att. 12, 3, 1.—(g). With in: in eo me oblecto,
I delight in him, he is my delight
, Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 24: se in hortis, Cic. Off. 3, 19, 58: ego me in Cumano et Pompeiano satis commode oblectabam, i. e.
amused myself excellently well in Cumanum
, id. Q. Fr. 2, 12, 1.—(d). With acc.: minime equidem me oblectavi, id. ib. 1, 2, 10: hortulos emere ubi se oblectare posset, Cic. Off. 3, 14, 58: ut te oblectes scire cupio, id. Q. Fr. 2, 3, 7: populum, Hor. A. P. 321.—With an impers. object: haec studia adulescentiam alunt, senectutem oblectant, Cic. Arch. 7, 16; Ter. Phorm. 2, 3, 87: animos, Ov. R. Am. 169; Tac. H. 2, 50: animum, Juv. 14, 265.—II.Transf., to spend or pass time agreeably: studio lacrimabile tempus, Ov. Tr. 5, 12, 1: iners otium, Tac. A. 12, 49: inter cenam oblectamus otium temporis, Plin. Ep. 4, 14, 15.—B. Hence, to delay, detain: ego illum interea hic oblectabo, Plaut. As. 2, 2, 83: dic mi ubi, Philotis, te oblectāsti tam diu, Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 9.