(verb) : ob-lecto, āvi, ātum, 1, 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.

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