Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Basilicus

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

BASIL'ICUS, sc. jactus. The name given to one of the throws on the dice. What combination of numbers was required to turn up the throw is not ascertained; but it was evidently a good cast, from the name, though below the Venus, which was the best of all. Plaut. Curc. ii. 3. 80. Becker, Gallus, p. 393. Transl.