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deludo

arch. inf. pass

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Where it lives

Asinaria 6 · 7.43/10k
Amphitruo 6 · 6.1/10k
Andria 2 · 2.03/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 2 · 1.82/10k
De Spectaculis 1 · 1.57/10k
De Consolatione ad Helviam 1 · 1.48/10k
Aulularia 1 · 1.45/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
Casina 1 · 1.29/10k
Pseudolus 1 · 0.9/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 1 · 0.89/10k
Elegiae 2 · 0.79/10k

Densest 12 of 25 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

dē-lūdo — Lewis & Short

dē-lūdo, si, sum, 3 (

I arch. inf. pass. deludier, Ter. And. 1, 2, 32), v. a.

I To play false, to mock, deceive, make sport of, delude.

A Prop. (rare, but class.), Ter. l. l. in hac re me deludier: deludi vosmet ipsos diutius a tribuno plebis patiemini? Cic. Agr. 2, 29, 79: me dolis, Ter. Andr. 3, 4, 4: animum hoc uno responso (Apollo), Verg. A. 6, 344: corvum hiantem, * Hor. S. 2, 5, 56: amantem, Ov. Am. 2, 19, 33 al.—Absol.: nihil agere atque deludere, Cic. Rosc. Am. 9 fin.—

B Transf., of inanimate subjects: terra deludet arantes, Prop. 2, 15, 31 (3, 7, 31 M.): quae sopitos deludunt somnia sensus, Verg. A. 10, 642; cf. of one dreaming, Ov. M. 8, 827: quem spes delusit, Phaedr. 5, 7, 7.—*

II To play through, to leave off playing: gladiatores cum deluserunt, Varr. ap. Plin. 36, 27, 69, § 202.

In the wild

Delusa Phaedrus, Fabulae Aesopiae 3.18.15
delusit Tertullian, De Spectaculis 10.1
deludi Cicero, De Lege Agraria 2.79
deludier Terence, Andria 1.2
deludit Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 6.240
delusus Seneca, De Consolatione ad Helviam 11.17.2

6 of 41 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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