He will serve his rivals in public life as he served me last night at Catiline's.

We were playing at the twelve lines.

(Duodecim scripta, a game of mixed chance and skill, which seems to have been very fashionable in the higher circles of Rome.

The famous lawyer Mucius was renowned for his skill in it.--"Cic.
Orat." i.

50.)--Immense stakes.