Crossword-Solution: XXXXX 5 letters, 2121 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 40

From the time when books first took their present shape till the end of the sixteenth century, or indeed later, the page so lay on the paper that there was more space allowed to the bottom and fore margin than to the top and back of the paper, thus: +---------+---------+ | xxxxx | xxxxx | | xxxxx | xxxxx | | xxxxx | xxxxx | | xxxxx | xxxxx | | xxxxx | xxxxx | | xxxxx | xxxxx | | | | +---------+---------+ the unit of the book being looked on as the two pages forming an opening.

The opening words stand for the date: Ct = Cter = CCC, and Xpenta = XXXXX = 50 The interpretation therefore is: 1350! Miserable, wild, distracted, 1350! The dregs of the people alone survive to witness.

Sometimes there is simply the name of a gladiator, with his school and the number of combats, as _Auctus, Iul[ianus], XXXXX_; sometimes we find a rough outline of a figure with a boastful legend, as _Hermaïscus invictus hac_, 'Here's the unconquered Hermaïscus.' There are also memoranda in regard to particular combats, illustrated by rude sketches.