I.sportiveness, playfulness, frolicsomeness, jollity.
I. In a good sense (class.): “adulescens plenus amoris ac lasciviae,” Plaut. Trin. 3, 3, 23: “hilaritas et lascivia,” Cic. Fin. 2, 20, 65: “laeta (agrestium),” Lucr. 5, 1400: “ut nudi juvenes, Lycaeum Pana venerantes, per lusum atque lasciviam currerent,” Liv. 1, 5, 2 Drak.: “in juvenales lusus lasciviamque versi,” id. 24, 16, 14; 37, 20, 5: piscium, Pac. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 14, 24: “si quid per lasciviam, et non data opera ut furtum committeretur, factum sit,” Gai. Inst. 3, 181.—Of inanim. things: “naturae,” Plin. 11, 37, 45, § 123.—Comic.: “o virgarum lascivia,” thou scourge's pastime! Plaut. As. 2, 2, 32.—
II. In a bad sense, wantonness, licentiousness, petulance, impudence, lewdness, lasciviousness (mostly postAug.; “not in Cic.): quos soluto imperio licentia corruperat,” Sall. J. 39 fin.; “with superbia,” id. ib. 41: “maledicendi,” Quint. 9, 2, 76: “theatralis populi,” Tac. A. 11, 13: lasciviae notae, of lewdness, Suet. Calig. 36; cf.: “Caesonia luxuriae ac lasciviae perditae,” id. ib. 25: ignoscitur, nisi in lata et incauta neglegentia vel lascivia fuit, Mos. et Rom. Leg. Coll. 12, 5, 2; cf. “Gai. Inst. l. l. supra. —Of a licentious, prolix style: lasciviae flosculis capi,” Quint. 2, 5, 22: “alios recens haec lascivia deliciaeque et omnia ad voluptatem multitudinis imperitae composita delectant,” id. 10, 1, 43: “lasciviam a vobis prohibetote,” impious exultation, Liv. 23, 10, 3 Gronov. ad loc.
