ludere

The word play comes from ludere, which means light.

Diana Castle: Tell-A-Vision Diana Castle 2011

Be rational and informed (serio) but also creative and joyful (ludere).

After the Diagnosis MD Julian Seifter 2010

Serio ludere was shorthand for a set of ideas on how to live: Contain opposites.

After the Diagnosis MD Julian Seifter 2010

In the spirit of the ancients, we can play seriously, serio ludere, as we do battle with our illnesses.

After the Diagnosis MD Julian Seifter 2010

"Don't joke around (jocare), please be serious (ludere)"; "Have respect to other players" etc...

Game as Cultural Form, Play as Disposition 2008

Now methinks he did well in it, though [3519] Salisburiensis be of opinion, that magistrates, senators, and grave men, should not descend to lighter sports, ne respublica ludere videatur: but as Themistocles, still keep a stern and constant carriage.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Passer, deliciae meae puellae, quicum ludere, quem in sinu tenere, rusticum fuctutas

Fuck you, Clown delagar 2006

Finally, other aspects of humanism and art remain obscure, until one takes into account paradoxical or ironical intentions: the Neo-Platonists had learned from Plato himself the way of dealing playfully with sacred subjects; Apuleius and Lucian had taught them the serio ludere, “art of playing seriously.”

Dictionary of the History of Ideas JEAN SEZNEC 1968

'Quin ubi se a volgo et scaena in secreta remorant virtus Scipiadae et mitis sapientia Laeli, nugari cum illo et discincti ludere, donec decoqueretur olus, soliti.'

The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

The same corruption is found in some ninth-century manuscripts of Virgil at _Ecl_ VI 1 'Prima Syracosio dignata est ludere uersu' and in the

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid