CXXXV.

Races. Cursus Certamina.

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Boys exercise themselves by running, either upon the _Ice_, 1. in _Scrick-shoes_, 2. where they are carried also upon _Sleds_, 3. Pueri exercent se cursu, sive super _Glaciem_, 1. _Diabatris_, 2. ubi etiam vehuntur _Trahis_, 3. or in the open Field, making a _Line_, 4. which he that desireth to win, ought to touch, but not to run beyond it. sive in Campo, designantes _Lineam_, 4. quam qui vincere cupit debet attingere, at non ultrâ procurrere.

Heretofore _Runners_, 5. run betwixt _Rails_, 6. to the _Goal_, 7. Olim decurrebant _Cursores_, 5. inter _Cancellos_, 6. ad _Metam_, 7. and he that toucheth it first receiveth the _Prize_, 8. from _him that gave the prize_, 9. & qui primum contingebat eam, accipiebat _Brabeum_, (_præmium_), 8. à _Brabeuta_, 9.

At this day _Tilting_ (or the quintain) is used, Hodie _Hastiludia_ habentur, (where a _Hoop_, 11. is struck at with a _Truncheon_, 10.) instead of _Horse-races_, which are grown out of use. (ubi _Circulus_, 11. petitur _Lancea_, 10.) loco _Equiriorum_, quæ abierunt in desuetudinem.