adludite
Dictionary entries
- Entry →adludo, adludere, adlusi, adlusus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
frolic/play/sport around/with, play against; jest, make mocking allusion to;
pl. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
Liber Sextus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...velut ante comas ac summa cacumina silvae lenibus adludit flabris levis Auster, at illum protinus immanem miserae carinae..."Metamorphoses II
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...manibus; vix iam, vix cetera differt; et nunc adludit viridique exsultat in herba, nunc latus in fulvis niveum..."