Tessera
in example sentence
So bidding farewell to Petronius, he went hurriedly to the overseer of the "Putrid Pits" for his
tessera
.
More example sentences with word tessera
The Lygian rubbed his forehead, and asked again,--"How didst thou enter?""I have a
tessera
from the overseer of the 'Putrid Pits.'"
Let her take my tessera; she can wrap her head in a cloth, cover her shoulders with a mantle, and pass out.
But disappointment was in waiting,--the overseer would not give the
tessera.
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.
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