Crossword-Solution: TESSERA 7 letters, 40 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Seneca, in his Play on the death of Claudius, represents him as in the lower regions condemned to pick up dice for ever, putting them into a box without a bottom!(34) (34) Nam quotiens missurus erat resonante fritillo, Utraque subducto fugiebat tessera fundo.

Only one method came to my head--” Here he turned toward the grating in the wall, as if in answer to himself, and said,-- “In that way--but there are soldiers outside--” “A hundred pretorians.” “Then we cannot pass?” “No!” The Lygian rubbed his forehead, and asked again,-- “How didst thou enter?” “I have a tessera from the overseer of the ‘Putrid Pits.’” Then Vinicius stopped suddenly, as if some idea had flashed through his head.

Let her take my tessera; she can wrap her head in a cloth, cover her shoulders with a mantle, and pass out.

The hope gleamed in him, however, that the soldiers who had seen him before would admit him even without a tessera; so, with the coming of night, he disguised himself as usual in the tunic of a corpse-bearer, and, winding a cloth around his head, betook himself to the prison.

The former was one of the emperor's personal body-guard (speculatores), who received the watchword (tessera) and passed it round: the latter was one to whom a centurion had delegated some part of his work.