I.playful, sportive, frolicsome, wanton.
I. Lit.: “Sic palliolatim amictus hac incessi ludibundus,” Plaut. Ps. 5, 1, 30: “milites ita ludibundi Beneventum rediere, ut ab epulis reverti viderentur,” Liv. 24, 16: “circum vicos vagabatur ludibundus,” Suet. Ner. 26: “oculi ludibundi atque illecebrae voluptatisque plenae,” Gell. 3, 5, 2.—
II. Transf., playing, easily, without danger: “caelo sereno in Italiam ludibundi pervenimus,” Cic. Fam. 16, 9, 2: “si Vulteium habebis, omnia ludibundus conficies,” Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 67, § 156.