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 (1882)
Yaggy, Levi W · Chicago, Western Publishing House; New York, Standard Publishing House; [etc.,etc.] · leaf 200
e,and even the thick ends of the gereet are beaten flat and formedinto brooms. Besides the lowhgeh 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 gpORT? OF THE JqYPTIAN^. The o-ame 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…
Haines, Thomas L · Civilization · Classical antiquities
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