I.a delighting, delight, pleasure, amusement (freq. and good prose): delectatio voluptas suavitate auditus animum deleniens, etc., Cic. Tusc. 4, 9: “homo videndi et audiendi delectatione ducitur,” id. Off. 1, 30; so, “conviviorum,” id. de Sen. 13, 45. More freq. without gen.: “mira quaedam in cognoscendo suavitas et delectatio,” Cic. de Or. 1, 43, 193; so, “jucunditas delectatioque,” id. ib. 3, 38, 155; “with voluptas,” id. Fam. 9, 24, 2: “(doctrina et literae), quae secundis rebus delectationem modo habere, videbantur, nunc vero etiam salutem,” id. ib. 6, 12 fin.: “gratiam et delectationem afferunt,” Quint. 2, 13, 11; 9, 4, 9 et saep.; Ter. Heaut. 5, 2, 34: “in amicitia,” Vulg. Sap. 8, 18.—In plural, Cic. Mur. 19, 39 al.—
dēlectātĭo , ōnis, f. id.,