Thus conversing, they passed through the length of the house and reached the garden, where Lygia and little Aulus were playing with balls, which slaves, appointed to that game exclusively and called spheristæ, picked up and placed in their hands.
Így beszélgetve mentek végig a házon, s kijutottak a kertbe, ahol Lygia a kis Aulusszal labdá­zott, s a labdákat külön e célra beosztott a sphaeristaenek60 nevezett rabszolgák szedték fel, s adták kezükbe.