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al-lūdĭo, āre (a less emphatic form of alludo), to play, to jest with; only twice in Plaut.: quando adbibero, adludiabo, Stich. 2, 2, 58; and of dogs, to caress: Ad. Etiam me meae latrant canes? Ag. At tu hercle adludiato, Poen. 5, 4, 64.

al-lūdo (adl-), ūsi, ūsum, 3, v. a. and n.

  1. 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.
  2. II. Trop., of the motion,
    1. 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, quaefluctus salis adludebant, Cat. 64, 66.
    2. 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.