Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Ludio

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

LU'DIO and LU'DIUS (λυδίων). The original name for a stage-player or mimic dancer (Liv. vii. 2.); but afterwards connected with a sentiment of depreciation, such as is conveyed by our expression, strolling player; for the name is applied to those who danced and acted in the public streets (Ov. A. Am. 112.), or in the Circus, for the amusement of the populace (Suet. Aug. 74.), in which jugglers, fortune-tellers, tumblers, and persons of that class used to congregate, as they still do upon our race courses.