Ludus latrunculorum (redirect from Latrunculi)
Ludus latrunculorum, latrunculi, or simply latrones ("the game of brigands", or "the game of soldiers" from latrunculus, diminutive of latro, mercenary...
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during the Trojan War. The Romans played a derivation of petteia called latrunculi, or the game of the Little Soldiers. The pieces, and sporadically the...
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Archived from the original on 8 April 2009. Retrieved 11 December 2006. "Latrunculi". Archived from the original on 15 September 2006. Retrieved 11 December...
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Machine "Greek Board Games". Archived 8 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine "Latrunculi". Archived 15 September 2006 at the Wayback Machine Ioannis Kakridis (1988)...
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trigon and harpastum. People of all ages played board games, including latrunculi ("Raiders") and XII scripta ("Twelve Marks"). A game referred to as alea...
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Board games played in Rome included dice (Tesserae or Tali), Roman chess (Latrunculi), Roman checkers (Calculi), Tic-tac-toe (Terni Lapilli), and Ludus duodecim...
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Thus it is possible that fidchell was a descendant of latrunculi. Fidchell shared with latrunculi the method of custodial capture, two around one enemy...
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Piso sang on the tragic stage, wrote poetry, played an expert game of Latrunculi, and owned the villa Pisoni at Baiae. Piso was tall, good-looking, affable...
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variant, but rather may have been the medieval descendant of the Roman game Latrunculi or Ludus latrunculorum. The only variant of tafl where a relatively unambiguous...
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importance to his ambitions, invites him to play a board game called Latrunculi, but Lucretia jealously disapproves of the two men sharing wine. Meanwhile...
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