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XI. page 7
M. Dusaulx, author of a work on Gaming, exclaims therein--`I have
gambled like you, Paschasius, perhaps with greater fury. Like
you I write against gaming. Can I say that I am stronger than
you, in more critical circumstances?'[111]
[111] La Passion du Jeu.
What, then, is that mania which can be overcome neither by the
love of glory nor the study of wisdom!
The literary men of Greece and Rome rarely played any games but
those of skill, such as tennis, backgammon, and chess; and even
in these it was considered `indecent' to appear too skilful.
Cicero stigmatizes two of his contemporaries for taking too
great a delight in such games, on account of their skill in
playing them.[112]
[112] Ast alii, quia praeclare faciunt, vehementius quam causa
postulat delectantur, ut Titius pila, Brulla talis. De Orat.
lib. iii.
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