AMUSEMENT Copy link • AMUSEMENToblectatio (amusement, a relative pleasure): delectatio (delight: a positive pleasure). For the sake or purpose of amusement, delectationis causa, animi causa, voluptatis causa; animi voluptatisque causa. To indulge in some relaxation and amusement, se jucunditati dare et animum relaxare. To lighten toil, labor, etc., by intervals of amusement, studia voluptatibus condire. To find amusement in any thing, delectari, oblectari aliqua re; aliqua re oblectari et duci; delectationo alicujus rei duci. Amusement as thing, oblectamentum: delectamentum (Ter., Cic.).