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Surely the most famous sentence in Latin is either "veni, vidi, vici" or maybe "alea jacta est" - or perhaps "et tu, Brute?"
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While updating his personal log the night before, he had polished off a full decanter of spiced Bolian alea mistake he didnt plan on making again any time soon.
Star Trek: Voyager®: Full Circle Kirsten Beyer 2009
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According to the Armory page, alea iacta est has 646 characters in it.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Guild Update: The Die continues to be Cast 2007
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Alea iacta est — everybody and their dog can figure out that if “alea” is “the die” and “iacta” is “thrown” and “est” is “is” then using a simple word-for-word substitution you get “The die is thrown”.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Hisself, My Son, and a Thought About Prescriptivism: 2009
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While updating his personal log the night before, he had polished off a full decanter of spiced Bolian alea mistake he didnt plan on making again any time soon.
Star Trek: Voyager®: Full Circle Kirsten Beyer 2009
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Mimicry and ilinx are the paths to power in primitive societies, and then they get pushed aside as society advances technologically in favor of alea and agon.
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The four kinds of play ilinx, mimicry, alea, agon are mapped onto an evolutionary ladder of progress and pinned to a never-questioned assertion that people are individuals motivated by the acquisition of power.
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He points as well to the fact that the particular form a game takes is not a perfect or direct reflection of agon, alea, etc.
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"There can be no relationship between paidia, which is tumultuous and exuberant, and alea, which is passive anticipation of and mute immobility pending the outcome of the game" p.
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In applying agon and alea to the culture of "advanced" nations, for instance, there is no possible way we can see agon and alea as "occasions of pure waste" since agon is seen as the organising principle of society in this case, and alea its necessary complement.
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