ENJOY Copy link • ENJOYfrui, perfrui (aliqua re; the latter implying a continued enjoyment): voluptatem capere or percipere ex aliqua re (receive pleasure from; percipere with the same implied notion as perfrui): oblectari aliqua re: oblectari et duci aliqua re (am amused with, fond of, etc.): delectari aliqua re: delectatione alicujus rei duci: duci et delectari aliqua re (delectari of positive delight; oblectari rather of amusement and comparative satisfaction, that makes time pass pleasantly): gaudere aliqua re: laetari aliqua re. gaudium or laetitiam capere ex re (rejoice at anything). ☞ Frui, etc., must not be used except where there is a felt sense of pleasure; hence, to enjoy good health, prospera valetudine uti (not frui); valetudinis prosperitate uti; integra esse valetudine: to enjoy prosperity, success, felicitate uti (e.g., perpetua quadam felicitate usus est, Cic.). To enjoy a long peace, diutina pace frui (Nep.); pleasure, voluptate frui: percipere voluptatem; laetitia perfrui (Cic.); gaudio frui (Terentianus); gaudium haurire (Liv.): leisure, tranquillity, glory, otio, tranquillitate, gloria perfrui: to enjoy consideration and the glory of his past services, perfrui auctoritate rerumque gestarum gloria (Cic.); advantages, commodis frui; the pleasures of life, vitae jucunditatibus (voluptatibus) frui, perfrui: to enjoy these delights, his gaudiis perfrui: to enjoy a person, or a person’s company, aliquo or alicujus consuetudine frui. To ENJOY ONE’S SELF (absolutely), se oblectare. I enjoyed myself tolerably well in my Cuman villa, ego in Cumano... satis commode me oblectabam (Cic.).