Vestiges of ancient manners and customs, discoverable in modern Italy and Sicily / By the Rev. John James Blunt.

  • Blunt, John J. (John James), 1794-1855.
Date:
1823
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Vestiges of ancient manners and customs, discoverable in modern Italy and Sicily / By the Rev. John James Blunt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    out how exactly this accords with the de- scription by the author of the ‘ Nux Elegia:’ Quatuor in nucibus non amplius alea tota est Cum tibi suppositis additur una tribus. In stakes of nuts the gambling boys agree, Three placed below, a fourth to crown the three. II. Another characteristic which the Ita- lians possess in common with their ancestors, is a fondness for public spectacles: ‘ panem . et circenses.’ Amongst these there is one still followed in the capital of Italy which bears a great re- semblance to an ancient amphitheatrical ex- hibition. Not indeed to one of those more sanguinary scenes, which the savage nature of the combatants and the trifling value set upon their lives, was calculated to produce; not to the struggle between the gladiator and the king of the forests; but to that more harm- less species of contest which was sometimes waged between men and bulls. An ox is