Careful Words

dice (n.)

dice (v.)

dice (adj.)

  The dice of Zeus fall ever luckily.

Sophocles (496-406 b c): Phaedra. Frag. 809.

Whose game was empires and whose stakes were thrones,

Whose table earth, whose dice were human bones.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Age of Bronze. Stanza 3.