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Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Fritillus

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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

FRITIL'LUS (φιμός). A dice-box; of similar construction to those still in use, with graduated intervals on the inside to give the dice a rotatory motion during their descent, as shown by the annexed example (Fritillus/1.1) and section of an original found in an excavation at Rome. Juv. xiv. 5. Mart. iv. 14. Id. xiv. 1.

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