TOYS AND GAMES - AN OVERVIEW

[84] While used for a toy, Ovid describes it as an artform: "An additional tells in verse of the varied forms of balls and the way These are thrown; this one instructs from the artwork of swimming, that from the art in the hoop." Horace advises People unskilled in the art to stay reticent regarding their deficiencies: "if unskilled in ball or quoit