“For this indiscretion Seneca relegates the emperor (Claudius) to a Sisyphean gamester's hell: condemned eternally to pick up the bones and thow them into a dice cup that has no bottom.”
Ricky Jay
Dice: Deception, Fate & Rotten Luck
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