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                    "description": "(verb) : lūdo, si, sum (\n* Inf. ludier, Ter. Ad. 4, 3, 16), 3,  and n. root lud- for loid-, from Sanscr. krīd, to play; cf. laus and cluere from Sanscr. root cru-, to play.\n* Lit., to play, play at a game of some kind: tesseris,Ter. Ad. 4, 7, 21: aleā ludere,Cic. Phil. 2, 23, 56: pilā et duodecim scriptis,id. de Or. 1, 50, 217; 1, 16, 73; 2, 62, 253: cum pila,id. Tusc. 5, 20, 60: trocho,Hor. C. 3, 24, 56: nucibus,Mart. 14, 1, 12: pilā,Val. Max. 8, 8, 2: positā luditur arcā,with one's whole cash-box staked,Juv. 1, 90: eburnis quadrigis cotidie in abaco,Suet. Ner. 22: apud quem alea lusum esse dicetur,Dig. 11, 5, 1 praef.: senatus consultum vetuit in pecuniam ludere,to play for money,ib. 11, 5, 2: ego nisi quom lusim nil morer ullum lucrum,Plaut. Rud. 4, 7, 22.\n* With acc.: aleam,Suet. Aug. 70; id. Claud. 33; id. Ner. 30: par impar,id. Aug. 71; Hor. S. 2, 3, 248: ducatus et imperia,Suet. Ner. 35: Trojam,id. Caes. 39; id. Ner. 7: proelia latronum,Ov. A. A. 3, 357; cf. pass.: sunt aliis scriptae, quibus alea luditur, artes,id. Tr. 2, 471: alea luditur,Juv. 8, 10: aleae ludendae causa,Dig. 11, 5, 1 praef.: alea ludebatur,ib. 11, 5, 1, § 2.\n* Trop.\n* To play, sport, frisk, frolic: dum se exornat, nos volo Ludere inter nos,have some fun,Plaut. Stich. 5, 4, 20: ludere armis,Lucr. 2, 631: suppeditant et campus noster et studia venandi honesta exempla ludendi,Cic. Off. 1, 29, 104: ad ludendumne, an ad pugnandum, arma sumturi,id. de Or. 2, 20, 84: in numerum,dance,Verg. E. 6, 28: hic juvenum series teneris immixta puellis ludit,Tib. 1, 3, 64: cumque marinae In sicco ludunt fulicae,Verg. G. 1, 363: in exiguo cymba lacu,Ov. Tr. 2, 330.\n* To make sport or game of a person, to ridicule, rally, banter: Domitius in senatu lusit Appium collegam,Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 15 a, 13: satis jocose aliquem ludere,id. ib. 2, 12, 2: omnium irrisione ludi,id. de Or. 1, 12, 50.—Rarely with ad: caput aselli, ad quod lascivi ludebant ruris alumni,Juv. 11, 98.\n* To delude, deceive: auditis, an me ludit amabilis Insania?Hor. C. 3, 4, 5; Ov. A. A. 3, 332: custodes,Tib. 1, 6, 9; 3, 4, 7.—Comp.: hoc civili bello, quam multa (haruspicum responsa) luserunt,i. e. gave wanton, deceptive responses,Cic. Div. 2, 24, 53.\n* Ludere aliquem or aliquid, to play, mock, imitate, mimic a person or thing (only in mockery; cf.: partes  agere, etc.): civem bonum ludit, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 9, 1; cf.: ludere opus,to imitate work, make believe work,Hor. S. 2, 3, 252: magistratum fascibus purpurāque,App. M. 11, p. 260 fin.: ludere causas,Calp. Ecl. 1, 45: impia dum Phoebi Caesar mendacia ludit, Poët. ap. Suet. Aug. 70.\n* To trifle with: summa pericula,Mart. 9, 38, 1: viribus imperii,Sen. Brev. Vit. 18, 4.\n* To spend in play or amusement, to sport away: otium,Mart. 3, 67, 9.—Hence, ludere operam, to throw away one's labor, to labor in vain, Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 135."
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