verb intransitive

lascīvĭo

2nd PP lascīvīre · 3rd PP lascīvĭi · 4th PP lascīvītum · conj. 4th

to be wanton, petulant, sportive, to sport, frisk, frolic

to be wanton, petulant, sportive, to sport, frisk, frolic (not freq. till after the Aug. per.).

licet lascivire, dum nihil metuas, *Cic. Rep. 1, 40, 63: Ap. Claudius ait,… literal ••

Lit.: licet lascivire, dum nihil metuas, *Cic. Rep. 1, 40, 63: Ap. Claudius ait, lascivire magis plebem quam saevire, Liv. 2, 29, 9: licentiam lasciviendi permittere militi, Suet. Caes. 67: eo principio lascivire miles, Tac. A. 1, 16: exsilit agnus Lascivitque fuga, and wantonly frisks away, Ov. M. 7, 321; cf. Col. 6, 24: angues ... lascivientium piscium modo exsultasse, Liv. 27, 5. —Poet.: dextera lascivit caesa Tegeatide capra (of the Luperci, who wantonly struck at passers-by), Sil. 13, 329: ferratus lascivit apex, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2, 145: quis lascivit aquis et ab aethere ludit, Mart. 4, 3, 7. —Esp.: in Venerem, to be lascivious, Col. 6, 24, 2.—

to indulge in license figuratively ••

Trop., to indulge in license of language or style (a favorite expression of Quintilian): lascivimus syntonorum modis saltitantes, Quint. 9, 4, 142; cf. id. 11, 1, 56: toto et rerum et verborum et compositionis genere lasciviunt, id. 4, 2, 39: puerilibus sententiolis, id. 12, 10, 73; cf. id. 9, 4, 28; 9, 4, 6: Ovidius lascivire in Metamorphosesi solet, Quint. 4, 1, 77.

Perseus ID: n25929 Key: lascivio