THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO TOYS GAMES AND CALENDARS

[eighty four] Whilst utilised as being a toy, Ovid describes it being an artform: "another tells in verse of the varied types of balls and how They may be thrown; this 1 instructs from the art of swimming, that from the art from the hoop." Horace advises People unskilled within the art to remain reticent about their deficiencies: "if unskilled in b