Note 476 — Chapter III · TOYS, SPORTS, AND PASTIMES.
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Ars Poet. 380. where the ancient scholiast seems doubtful whether the trochus was a hoop or a top:—“Trochus dicitur turben, qui flagello percutitur, et in vertiginem rotatur, aut rota quam currendo pueri scuticâ vel virgâ regunt.”