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.

So bidding farewell to Petronius, he went hurriedly to the overseer of the "Putrid Pits" for his tessera.

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.

Tessera in sentence

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