Re: IACTA ALEA EST questions

In a message dated 4/30/2004 9:08:10 AM Eastern Daylight Time, jbutrica@xxxxxx writes:

> the ordinary meaning of "gamble" doesn't seem
> possible with "iacta est" (or might someone in English say "The gamble has
> been rolled

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 perhaps just: "the game is afoot" - with apologioes to Doyle. The die, once tossed, cannot be retrieved... or even sim Homer's (Achilles') words: "life is not plunderable back."

Allen
BC