ludere in pecuniam (general term, to play for money; Paullus, Dig.): aleae indulgere: studiosissime aleam ludere: calfacere forum aleatorium (Augustin, ap. Suet.; i. e., to keep the gaming-table warm): aleatorem esse. To gamble away (so much), perdere alea, or, from context, perdere only: to spend whole nights in gambling, *totas noctes conterere alea: to gamble every day and all day long, ludere per omnes dies, forumque aleatorium calefacere (Suet.). A law against gambling, lex, quae aleam vetat (after Hor., Od., 3, 24, 58).