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2016 November 6, Ann Gallagher, The Left Hand of Calvus: M/M Trans Historical Romantic Suspence, GallagherWitt, →ISBN:
"[…] and I'd just as soon not set foot in another ludus." "I've had my fill of ludi, believe me," he mutters. "But I've falsified a life before. I can do it again." Then he smiles. "I hear Rome is lovely." I wrinkle my nose . " I'd rather live in Pompeii's sewer[…]"
A private school for teaching children reading, writing, arithmetic, and sometimes Greek.
1994 December 14, Gerald L. Gutek, A History of the Western Educational Experience: Second Edition, Waveland Press, →ISBN, page 63:
[…] the routine of the Roman ludus emphasized strenuous discipline and corporal punishment. An institution for developing the skills of reading, writing, and arithmetic, the ludus was attended by children from the ages of seven through twelve.
^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “lūdō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 350–351
Further reading
“ludus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ludus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
ludus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
ludus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
to give funeral games in honour of a person: ludos funebres alicui dare
an elementary school: ludus (discendi or litterarum)
the piece; the play: fabula, ludus scaenicus
to institute games: ludos apparare
to give public games in honour of Jupiter: ludos facere, edere (Iovi)
to revive public games: ludos instaurare
a school for gladiators: ludus gladiatorius
crowded games: celebritas ludorum
sumptuous public games: magnificentia ludorum
(ambiguous) performances in the circus; theatrical perfomances: ludi circenses, scaenici
(ambiguous) sumptuous public games: ludi apparatissimi
(ambiguous) the Olympian, Pythian games: ludi Olympia (not ludi Olympici), Pythia
