Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Ludia

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'DIA. Originally designated a female who danced and acted in public, like the male ludius, in which sense it may be applied by Martial (v. 24.); but latterly it meant the wife of a gladiator (Juv. vi. 266.), as the school which he kept was termed ludus.