alludo

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

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.—

II.

Trop., of the motion,

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, quae... fluctus salis adludebant,

Cat. 64, 66.—

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.