Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, places, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1887)
Yaggy, L. W, Haines, Thomas L · Des Moines, Iowa : G.S. Cline · leaf 200
nd even the thick ends of the gereet are beaten flat and formedinto brooms. Besides the lovjbo-eh of the tree, brandy, wine, and vinegarare made from the fruit; and the quantity of saccharine matterin the dates might be used in default of sugar or honey. In Upper Egypt another tree, called the… … ^AME? AND ^PORT^ OF THE J^QYPTIAN^. The game of morra was common in ancient as well as mod-ern Italy, and was played by two persons, who each simultaneous-ly threw out the fingers of one hand, while one party guessed thesum of both. They were said in Latin, micare digitis, andthis game, still so…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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