Ludi

Thus the purely external side of the dramatic art developed from the crudest of beginnings to the brilliant settings of the so-called ludi caesarii. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

The usual form of the vow was to entertain the people on his return, in honour of Jupiter, and thus they were originally called ludi ❋ W. Warde Fowler (1884)

The best evidence comes from Pompeii, where two ludi from different periods have been excavated. ❋ Barry Strauss (2009)

Apparently they were trying to surrender and were kneeling with heads bowed, and the magister ludi declined to show mercy. ❋ Walter Jon Williams (2006)

Claudius revived the censorship and celebrated secular games (ludi saeculares). ❋ Unknown (2001)

Marcus Julius PHILIPPUS “the Arab” bought peace with the Persians, won victories in Germany and Dacia, and, at Rome, celebrated the ludi saeculares for Rome's thousandth birthday (248). ❋ Unknown (2001)

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Perhaps because the onerous task of preparing all this legislation had been going on without let since just after Sulla's triumph, the Dictator decided on the spur of the moment to take a few days off and attend the ludi Apollinares, celebrated during early Quinctilis. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1993)

But it was not until several days after the conclusion of the ludi Romani in September that Lucullus could spare time to visit Sulla, whom he found in one of his more lucid intervals, at work on the memoirs and full of glee at what he was doing to the reputation and deeds of Gaius Marius. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1993)

It was in April, shortly after the newly elected censors had confirmed Mamercus as Princeps Senatus, that Pompey announced he would celebrate votive victory games commencing in Sextilis and ending just before the ludi Romani were due to begin on the fourth day of September. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1993)

Between the end of Pompey's victory games (which were a great success, chiefly because Pompey's tastes in theater and circus were those of a common man) and the beginning of the ludi Romani, the Kalends of September intervened, and on the Kalends of September the Senate always held a meeting. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1993)

The ludi Apollinares, games first staged by Sulla's remote ancestor, came and went; so did the elections. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1993)

On the twenty-sixth day of October, Sulla's nephew, Sextus Nonius Sufenas (who was Sulla's sister's younger boy) put on the first performance of what were to become annual victory games, the ludi Victoriae; they culminated at the Circus Maximus on the first day of November, which was the anniversary of the battle at the Colline Gate. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1993)

“Not until after Varro Lucullus and his brother celebrate the ludi Romani in September.” ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1993)

Early in September the greatest games of the year, the ludi Romani, were held in Rome. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1991)

He came to Rome to produce his new play for the ludi Romani, and then when the trouble arose between Lucius Cinna and Gnaeus Octavius, he said he was too old to make the journey back to Umbria while there was so much unrest. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1991)