Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Venus

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. 

VEN'US (Ἀφροδίτη). The Venus, or best throw of the dice (tesserae), or dibs (tali); so called when all the numbers came up different. Prop. iv. 8. 45. Suet. Aug. 71. compared with Mart. xiv. 14.