I.wanton, petulant, sportive, playful, frolicsome, frisky, (syn.: petulans, procax).
I. 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. —
II. 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.—
III. 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.
A. lascīvē , wantonly, lasciviously (post-class.): “loqui,” licentiously, Mart. 8 init.: “versus facere,” App. Mag. p. 278, 31. —Comp.: “lascivius,” Avien. Arat. 514.—
B. lascīvĭter , wantonly, petulantly: ludere, Laev. ap. Charis. p. 183 P.
