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History of Dices – Chapter 3.

Horace, made a mockery of young people who used to bet with craps, rather than they follow the hurt of life and the wars.

To prevent the phenomenon of gambling with craps,the Roman legislators created a lot of laws.

For example the rights of the Pater Familia were not protected if they allowed the gambling in their houses.

Therefore in Ancient Rome the number of cheating men always increased,because they used to stitch up the players with fake craps.
It is very famous the quote “the die is cast” (alea iacta est.) said by Gaius Julius Caesar when he went beyond the Rubicon river with his army to march against Rome.

A thousand years later ,the craps became just a game of knights which also created schools and guilds of this game.

After the fall of fiefs the famous German mercenaries named “Lansquenets” gained the appointment of the best gamblers of the world.

In the France of French Revolution people like aristocrats and ladies were very involved into craps,for example a lot of monarchs who used to play with prostitutes with craps.

In Dante’s Divine Comedy is well-illustrated the pastime of “Zara” which is played with three craps of different sizes.
Throughout the Far East, the game of craps is very famous,for example the domino is a variant of two double stacked craps.

In India and in South East of Asia the craps with numbers are replaced by the “game of figures” carved in the wood in six-faces craps.

History Of Craps – Chapter 1.

The origins of the craps are still the cause of many controversies among the experts in the game of craps.According to the scholar Richard Epstein the game began in the medieval historical period,the game was known as’ chance ‘.

The rules of the craps were written by Montmort about on the eighteenth century.

It is also impossible to determine the origin of the word “crap”, but according to the studies of Joseph Whitburn,it dates from the English word “crabs” that means crab, or the French name “crapeaud” (little frog), and in any case it dates back to two small-size animals, which often were used by alchemists and sorcerers in their magic tricks.

According to Latin historians, there was already a variable of the game of craps in the age of the Roman Empire.

For example, the militaries of the Roman legions used to shave off the knuckles of pigs in the shape of cubes, and they used to cast throw their shields as pastime.In the Bible and in history of Jesus was often present the figure of “cheating men” playing with craps.
In the final section of the history of Jesus,we remember the Roman soldiers,after the crucifixion of Christ,that wagered his tunic playing with craps.