THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO TOYS AND GAMES

[84] Though utilised as being a toy, Ovid describes it being an artform: "another tells in verse of the different varieties of balls and the way These are thrown; this 1 instructs inside the art of swimming, that during the art with the hoop." Horace advises those unskilled from the artwork to stay reticent about their deficiencies: "if unskilled i