ludus
Noun
Meaning
ludus (plural ludi)
(historical, Ancient Rome) private school outside the home where a teacher (called a litterator or a magister ludi, and often of Greek origin) taught boys and some girls at the age of 7 basic reading, writing, arithmetic, and sometimes Greek, until the age of 11
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Animals and performers were brought through the tunnel from nearby stables, with the gladiators' barracks at the Ludus Magnus to the east also being connected by tunnels.
Andrew Hughes, "The Ludus super Anticlaudianum of Adam de la Bassée".
Board games played in Rome included dice (Tesserae or Tali ), Roman Chess ( Latrunculi ), Roman Checkers (Calculi), Tic-tac-toe (Terni Lapilli), and Ludus duodecim scriptorum and Tabula, predecessors of backgammon.
Other training schools were in the same area, including the Ludus Matutinus (Morning School), where fighters of animals were trained, plus the Dacian and Gallic Schools.
The τάβλη of Zeno's time is believed to be a direct descendant of the earlier Roman Ludus duodecim scriptorum ("Game of twelve lines") with that board's middle row of points removed, and only the two outer rows remaining.
Offered through the YMCA of Greater Nashua, Camp Merrimack offers a Young Explorers program, Camp Create, an arts and humanities camp, and Camp Ludus, a sports camp, and Discovery Camp, a science-based program.