"Postquam bis classe victus naves perdidit, Aliquando ut vincat, ludit assidue aleam."
— Augustus

January 1, 1970

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A popular rhyme at the time of the Sicilian war, mocking Augustus' habit of playing dice; in Suetonius, Divus Augustus, paragraph 70. Translation: Robert Graves, 1957.