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Natural History in which he says that we must not compare the Egyptian and other labyrinths with
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The italicised words clearly show that the construction of something akin to our turf mazes was practised by the Romans. It seems very reasonable to infer that, if the custom were so common as Pliny seems to imply, it would have been carried to the Roman colonies in these islands. An argument which has often been brought forward in this connection is that from very early times the game of Troy, the _lusus Trojae_, was played by Roman youths. Virgil describes it in the fifth book of his
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Aeneid, and draws attention to the similarity between the mazy windings of this sport--which was performed on horseback--and the sinuous path of the Cretan labyrinth (see Chapter XVIII). The inference drawn from this is that our
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Troy-towns