A pair of ancient Roman bone six-sided dice; each cube with ring-and-dot markings disposed 1:6, 2:5, 3:4.
Gambling with dice (latin: tesserae), though actually illegal except during the festival of the Saturnalia, was a very popular pastime among the Romans. When four dice were thrown, the highest roll was Venus (four sixes), the lowest was canis (four ones). Dice were also used in a variety of board games like Duodecim Scripta.
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