The word for 9 April 2019 is:

GAMBOLING

gambol

verb gam·​bol | \ ˈgam-bəl \ gamboledor gambolled; gambolingor gambolling\ ˈgam-​bə-​liŋ also  -​bliŋ \

Definition of gambol

A quote: Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.

Pubilius Syrus

Which leads to the even more important questions of, “Who is Pubilius Syrus? And “If the lion is dead, where is the risk to the hare?” I submit for your consideration the following freely stolen from our friends at hewhoshallnotbenamedipedia.

Publilius Syrus (fl. 85–43 BC^[1]), was a Latin writer, best known for his sententiae. He was a Syrian who was brought as a slave to Roman Italy. By his wit and talent, Syrus won the favour of his master, who granted him manumission and educated him. He became a member of the Publilia gens. Publilius’ name, due to thepalatalization of ‘l’ between two ‘i’s in the Early Middle Ages, is often presented by manuscripts (and some printed editions) in corrupt form as ‘Publius‘. Publius being a very common Roman praenomen.

Work[edit]

His mimes, in which he acted, had a great success in the provincial towns of Italy and at the games given by Julius Caesar in 46 BC. Publilius was perhaps even more famous as an improviser. He received from Julius Caesar himself the prize in a contest, in which Syrus vanquished all his competitors, including the celebrated Decimus Laberius.

All that remains of his corpus is a collection of Sententiae, a series of moral maxims in iambic and trochaic verse. This collection must have been made at a very early date, since it was known to Aulus Gellius in the 2nd century AD. Each maxim consists of a single verse, and the verses are arranged in alphabetical order according to their initial letters. In the course of time the collection was interpolated with sentences drawn from other writers, especially from apocryphal writings of Seneca the Younger. The number of genuine verses is about 700. They include many pithy sayings, such as the famous “iudex damnatur ubi nocens absolvitur” (“The judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted”), which was adopted as its motto by the Edinburgh Review.

ACTUAL DEFINITION; a skipping or leaping about in play. To frolic.