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Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards

Editorial note — Chapter I · OF THE ORIGIN AND NAME OF CARDS

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Terent. Adelph. act. iv, sc. 7.

"Ludo Tesserarum Plato vitam comparavit, in quo et jacere utilia oportet, et jacientem uti benè iis quæ ceciderunt."— Plut. Op. Mor. Epist. ad Paccium.—Etudes historiques sur les Cartes à Jouer, par M. C. Leber, p. 63.

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