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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    of the time, depending on the rules. Play would be easier on a larger Latrunculi board of 12x8 or even 10x11. . "BoardGameGeek". boardgamegeek.com. Archived...
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    played in ancient Rome included dice (tesserae or tali), Roman chess (latrunculi), Roman checkers (Calculi), tic-tac-toe (terni lapilli), and ludus duodecim...
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  • playing ball, composing poetry in Greek, and especially the board game of latrunculi, for which the poem is one of our main sources. The author three times...
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    S2CID 163535077. Archived from the original on 8 April 2009. Schädler, Ulrich; Latrunculi, "A forgotten Roman game of strategy reconstructed"; in Homo Ludens. Der...
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    of the game by Schädler (2007) argues that the game is neither Roman latrunculi, nor XII scripta, but in fact a relative of the Celtic game known as fidchell...
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    chronicle text was extracted by Simon of Kéza in the 1280s. predones et latrunculi Ch. 76. The text describes those Hungarians who had fled to the Holy Roman...
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