. The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary and Greek lexicon; forming a glossary of all the words representing visible objects connected with the arts, manufactures, and every-day life of the Greeks and Romans, with representations of nearly two thousand objects from the antique. m of the Col- delineated in profile, like the oneI annexed, so that no details can bei seen. But there is good reason toI believe that the pieces were movedin parallel lines; consequently, thatthe board was not divided intosquares, like our chess-board. Some-times, however, the table was madedouble, one side
. The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary and Greek lexicon; forming a glossary of all the words representing visible objects connected with the arts, manufactures, and every-day life of the Greeks and Romans, with representations of nearly two thousand objects from the antique. m of the Col- delineated in profile, like the oneI annexed, so that no details can bei seen. But there is good reason toI believe that the pieces were movedin parallel lines; consequently, thatthe board was not divided intosquares, like our chess-board. Some-times, however, the table was madedouble, one side being fitted for theludus trunculorum, the other for theludus duodecim scriptorum (Mart. ) ; and thus tabula also means abackgammon-board (Pet. Sat ), with divisions as described andillustrated s. Abacus, 2. 4. A board or plank for a gameplayed by the Roman boys duringthe Saturnalian festival, with walnuts(Ov. Nux. 77. Mart. v. 84.), andprobably with balls, which the objectsin the annexed illustration seemintended for. The game was played TABULA. TABULARTTJM. 641 in the following manner. A numberof nuts were disposed upon theground at certain intervals from oneanother, in front of a plank supportedunderneath by a stone, or some otherobject, which caused it to rest in a. slanting position. From the top ofthis a single nut was then let off bythe player, which ran down the in-clined plane, and captured all thoseit happened to strike against. Theprocess is very clearly expressed bythe annexed illustration, from a Ro-man bas-relief in the collection atInce Blundell. 5. A board covered with wax orsand, which the Roman school-boysused for writing their exercises, orworking their pro-blems upon ( i. 6. 74. 46. 3.), as ex-hibited by the an-nexed figure, from abas-relief in terra-cotta, representing aRoman youth withthe bulla round hisneck, his tablet onhis knees, and hisbox of books (capsa)on the ground beside him. Hencethe term tabula is also applied to anyki
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