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XIV. page 2
Blows or injuries might be inflicted on the gambling house keeper
at any time and anywhere without being penal as against any person;
but theft was not exempted from punishment, unless committed at the
time of gambling--and not by a gambler. Children and freedmen could
recover their losses as against their parents and patrons.
Cicero, in his second Philippic, speaks of a criminal process
(_publicum judicium_) then in force against gamblers.
The laws of ancient Rome were, therefore, very stringent on this
subject, although, there can be no doubt, without much effect.