{"id":49261,"date":"2019-04-15T23:04:36","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T21:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/ciekawostka\/emperors-gamblers\/"},"modified":"2019-04-15T23:05:02","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T21:05:02","slug":"emperors-gamblers","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/emperors-gamblers\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Emperors gamblers&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/suetonius\/\">Suetonius<\/a> reports that <b><a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/augustus\/\">Augustus<\/a> was a game lover<\/b> to such extent that he invited his friends and family, gave everyone a sum of 250 denarii in order to encourage them to play. And he did not mind his own legal restrictions introduced in this matter. However, he was not a good player. In the letters he complained that he had suffered numerous losses due to <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-society\/entertainment-in-ancient-rome\/gambling-of-ancient-romans\/\">gambling<\/a>. Also <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/nero\/\"><b>Nero<\/b><\/a> loved to play and was known for high bets. <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/apparently-donuts-were-already-loved-by-ancient-romans\/\">Apparently<\/a>, they reached up to 400.000 sesterces. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In turn, <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biografie\/klaudiusz\/\"><b>Claudius<\/b><\/a> had a bone table specifically adapted to play while traveling. Apparently he even wrote a book about its principles. Seneca, by creating a parody to the death of the ruler, introduced him in a hell destined to eternal bone play using a bottomless cup. Another gambling freak was <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/commodus\/\"><b>Commodus<\/b><\/a>. When he noticed the void in his treasury, he came up with the idea of \u200b\u200borganizing a casino in the palace. The crazy <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/caligula\/\">emperor Caligula<\/a>, to pay off his gambling debts, confiscated the estate of several of his soldiers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":36122,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[77],"class_list":["post-49261","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-unknown-facts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/49261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/49261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=49261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}