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Luduș (; Hungarian: Marosludas or Ludas; Hungarian pronunciation: , German: Ludasch) is a town in central Romania in Mureș County, 44 km south-west from the county's capital Târgu Mureș.
Six villages are administered by the town: Avrămeşti (Eckentelep), Cioarga (Csorga), Ciurgău (Csorgó), Fundătura (Mezőalbisitelep or Belsőtelep), Gheja (Marosgezse) and Roșiori (Andrássytelep).
Ludus was a British post-punk band formed in Manchester in 1978 which featured artist, designer and singer Linder Sterling. It played jazz-, avant-garde- and punk- oriented material. The band influenced singer Morrissey, later of The Smiths and a solo artist, who remains one of the group's most vocal fans.
In ancient Roman culture, the Latin word ludus (plural ludi) has several meanings within the semantic field of "play, game, sport, training" (see also ludic).
An elementary or primary school attended by boys and girls up to the age of 11 was a ludus. Ludi were to be found throughout the city, and were run by a ludi magister ( schoolmaster) who was often an educated slave or freedman. School started around six o'clock each morning and finished just after midday. Students were taught math, reading, writing, poetry, geometry and sometimes rhetoric.
Ludus was also the word for a board game, examples of which include ludus latrunculorum and ludus duodecim scriptorum, or a game played with knucklebones (astragali).
Latin poetry often explores the concept of ludus as playfulness, both in the writing of poetry as a kind of play and as a field for erotic role-playing. "Poetic play (ludus, ludere, iocum, etc.)," Michèle Lowrie observes, "denotes two related things: stylistic elegance of the Alexandrian variety and erotic poetry."
Ludi, always plural, were the games held in conjunction with Roman religious festivals.
Ludus may refer to:
- the Latin word ludus, "game, sport, play", with various meanings:
- Ludus (ancient Rome), elementary school, and various forms of game-playing
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Ludus gladiatorius, training camp for gladiators, and especially:
- Ludus Magnus, the major training camp for gladiators in Rome
- Ludus scaenicus, a theatrical performance; see Theatre of ancient Rome
- Ludus latrunculorum, an ancient Roman board game
- Ludi (plural), the games associated with Roman religious festivals
- Ludus, a sports application
- Ludus, British post-punk band 1978–83
- Luduş, a town in Mureş County, Romania
- Ludus, a love style
- Ludus, a CBBC children's television show
Usage examples of "ludus".
He knew the journey to the ludus, the training school for gladiators, would not be a short one.
Chapter 6 Chains rattling and manacles digging into his ankles, Atretes was forced down off the wagon just inside the gates of the ludus of Capua.
Malcenas said, smugly aware that the wealthy proprietor of the ludus had fixed his attention on that defiant German.
Scorpus attacked within his own ludus, and that young barbarian was mad enough to do it.
If you succeed in surviving, I succeed in building reputation enough to earn a place at the great ludus of Rome rather than spend the rest of my life in this rabbit warren.
He was owned by the emperor Vespasian and held the prestigious position of head lanista at the ludus of Rome.
There was little difference between this ludus and the ludus in Capua.
So, too, would this ludus have a small solitary cell where a man had not the room to sit up or stretch out his legs.
These Roman women came to the ludus disdainful of men, then strove to become one.
Other women came to the ludus as well, not to fight, but to watch from the safe confines of the balcony.
Roman men also came to the ludus to train, but Atretes was kept away from them.
She wanted to go to a private showing at a gladiatorial ludus and she needed Claudius to accompany her.
They found Claudius two miles from the ludus, his neck broken from a fall.
Flowers and coin were thrown down to him before and after he fought, and gifts from amoratae poured into the ludus daily.
In the silence the ludus, his mind cleared of bloodlust, he grew morose and bitter.