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|lshtext=<b>lascīvus</b>: a, um, adj. Sanscr. [[lash]]-āmi, [[desire]]; las-āmi, [[play]]; Gr. la- in λάω, [[λιλαίομαι]]; cf. Goth. lustus; also Lat. [[largus]],<br /><b>I</b> [[wanton]], [[petulant]], [[sportive]], [[playful]], [[frolicsome]], [[frisky]], (syn.: [[petulans]], [[procax]]).<br /><b>I</b> In a [[good]] [[sense]]: nova [[proles]], * Lucr. 1, 260: [[capella]], Verg. E. 2, 64: [[puella]], id. ib. 3, 64: pueri, Hor. S. 1, 3, 134: Amores, id. C. 2, 11, 7: currumque sequuntur matris lascivo sidera fulva choro, Tib. 2, 1, 88: tenero lascivior haedo, Ov. M. 13, 791: [[aetas]], Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 216: hederae, [[wanton]], [[luxuriant]], id. C. 1, 36, 20: [[acus]], for ornamenting the [[hair]], a [[hair]]-[[pin]], Mart. 11, 45, 6; cf. Tert. Verg. Vel. 12: tristia maestum Vultum verba [[decent]]. ... Ludentem lasciva, [[sportive]], [[playful]], Hor. A. P. 107; cf.: [[quod]] dicitur, aut est lascivum et [[hilare]] aut contumeliosum, Quint. 6, 3, 27: ad [[quod]] ([[caput]] aselli) lascivi ludebant ruris alumni, Juv. 11, 98. —<br /><b>II</b> In a [[bad]] [[sense]], [[licentious]], [[lewd]], [[lustful]], [[lascivious]], Varr. R. R. 1, 14: [[Siculi]], ut sunt lascivi et dicaces, Cael. ap. Quint. 6, 3, 41: puellae, [[lascivious]], Ov. A. A. 1, 523: [[femur]], id. Am. 3, 7, 10: libelli, [[lewd]], Mart. 5, 2, 5; cf.: tabellis ac sigillis lascivissimarum picturarum et figurarum, Suet. Tib. 43.—<br /><b>III</b> Trop., of [[style]], [[licentious]], [[luxuriant]], overloaded [[with]] [[ornament]]; [[oratio]], Gell. 12, 2, 9; cf.: illud lascivum ζωὴ καὶ [[ψυχή]], Juv. 6, 194.—Hence, adv. in [[two]] forms.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> lascīvē, [[wantonly]], [[lasciviously]] ([[post]]-[[class]].): loqui, [[licentiously]], Mart. 8 init.: [[versus]] facere, App. Mag. p. 278, 31. —Comp.: lascivius, Avien. Arat. 514.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> lascīvĭter, [[wantonly]], [[petulantly]]: ludere, Laev. ap. [[Charis]]. p. 183 P.