Crossword-Solution: SCHOLAE 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

These barbarians covered the country with villages and farmhouses;(1) they cleared the forests, bridged the torrents, and colonized the formerly quite uninhabited wilderness; and they left the uncertain warlike pursuits to brotherhoods, scholae, or "trusts" of unruly men, gathered round temporary chieftains, who wandered about, offering their adventurous spirit, their arms, and their knowledge of warfare for the protection of populations, only too anxious to be left in peace.

Testis est huius rei medicus eximius eius oppidi Ghisbertus ac pertinax verae pietatis cultor, qui plurimis utriusque scholae morientibus adfuit.

EDUARDO THRING, _SCHOLAE UPPINGHAMIENSIS CONDITORI ALTERI_, _OB CIVES SERVATOS_: ET MAGISTRIS ADJUTORIBUS, QUI, SALUTE COMMUNI IN ULTIMUM ADDUCTA DISCRIMEN, DE RE PUBLICA NON DESPERAVERUNT.

Others, regarding assemblies of Christians for public worship as, in their essence, meetings of persons associated in common brotherhood, have derived the basilica directly from the aisleless _scholae_ which were the meeting-places of the various confraternities or _collegia_ of ancient Rome.

Centuries later, during the middle ages, dicing became the favourite pastime of the knights, and both dicing schools (_scholae deciorum_) and gilds of dicers existed.