to stop playing, cease to sport: litus, quā fluctus eluderet. — To parry, elude,
avoid: quasi rudibus eius eludit oratio (i. e. in a sham
fight): elusa volnera, O.—To escape, avoid, shun: celeritate navium nostros, Cs.: Orsilochum
fugiens, V.: Satyros sequentīs, O.:
contra eludere Poenus, avoided a fight, L.—To
make vain, frustrate: bellum quiete, quietem bello, L.:
his miraculis elusa fides, i. e. denied,
L.—To delude, deceive, cheat: eludendi occasiost
senes, T.: elusa imagine tauri Europa, O.:
eludebas, cum, etc., you were making a pretence.
— To mock, jeer, make sport of, trifle with, insult: quamdiu furor tuus nos eludet?: illum vicissim: per licentiam, L.:
gloriam eius, L.: alqm
contumeliis, L.
Lewis, Charlton, T. An Elementary Latin Dictionary. New York, Cincinnati, and Chicago. American Book Company. 1890.
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