It was of the nature of a contract, entered into by mutual promise, the clasping of hands, and exchange of an agreement in writing (tabula hospitalis) or of a token (tessera or symbolum), and was rendered hereditary by the division of the tessera.   anvd [Please select]

Let her take my tessera; she can wrap her head in a cloth, cover her shoulders with a mantle, and pass out.   anvd [Please select]

So bidding farewell to Petronius, he went hurriedly to the overseer of the "Putrid Pits" for his tessera.   anvd [Please select]

"I have a tessera from the overseer of the 'Putrid Pits."'   anvd [Please select]

But disappointment was in waiting,--the overseer would not give the tessera.   anvd [Please select]