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Assouan, is situated near the rapids, just on the confines of Ethiopia. It was a station for a Roman garrison, and the place to which Juvenal is said to have been banished. Some think the island Elephantine is here meant. Cf. ad x., 150,
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Cf. Lucan., iv., 678,
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Concolor Indo Maurus.
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Nebaioth, first-born of Ishmael,
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from the resemblance of the squares to the tesselated pavements. But it is a die, properly; of which shape the separate tesseræ were. Mart., xiv., 17,
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Hic mihi bis seno numeratur tessera puncto: Calculus hic gemino discolor hoste perit. Cf. Ep. 14. Cicero considers this game to be one of the legitimate amusements of old age.
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Nobis senibus, ex lusionibus multis, talos relinquant et _tesseras_, de Sen., xvi.
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Old Mucius Scævola, the lawyer, was a great proficient at it. It was called Ludus duodecim scriptorum, from the lines dividing the alveolus. On these the two armies, white and black, each consisting of fifteen men, or calculi, were placed; and alternately moved, according to the chances of the dice, _tesseræ_.
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Here used for the teachers of the art of carving who exhibited at these stalls. Suet., Aug., 94, speaks of a
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Pergula,
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Capræ sylvestris genus, ab albis clunium pilis. Facc. Cf. Plin., viii., 53, 79,
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Damæ et pygargi et Strepsicerotes. The