tālus ī, m TEC-, an ankle, ankle-bone, pasternbone, knuckle-bone: taloque tenus vestigia tinguit, O.: prodibant tubere tali, O.

—The heel: ad talos demissa purpura: talos a vertice pulcher ad imos, H.: Securus, cadat an recto stet fabula talo, i. e. succeeds or fails, H.

—A die (often made of bone; it had rounded ends, and four sides marked successively 1, 3, 6, 4): ad talos se aut ad tesseras conferunt: talos nucesque Ferre sinu laxo, H.