This is incorrect.
"Alea" is a dice game, actually played with little bone dice that look much like our modern ones.
"The die is cast" means the bones are on the table and you can't take 'em back.
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He will get on a row boat and row to the middle of the Rubicon.
Sweet!
This is incorrect.
"Alea" is a dice game, actually played with little bone dice that look much like our modern ones.
"The die is cast" means the bones are on the table and you can't take 'em back.
I've never heard of that definintion. Every time I've heard of "Alea" it has refered to a die or dice in a game, not a mold for metal. Similarly, "Iacta" refers to throwing or hurling the dice, not to metal casting. A looser, more idiomatic translation would be "The game is beginning".
This is inaccurate. When liquid materials are poured into a mold or die, it is the material that is cast, not the die. (It's why we speak of, for example, "cast iron.") The die in Caesar's famous phrase refers to the item the plural of which is dice, and the verb "cast" refers to rolling or throwing. Julius knew he was taking a massive gamble, and once he'd crossed the Rubicon with his army, the gamble was made, the dice were rolled, the die was cast, and there was no going back.
As to the substance of the piece, is the author seriously suggesting that Obama should "cross the Rubicon" and do as Caesar did, disregarding the civilian authorities and instigating a civil war for the purpose of making himself military dictator? Gawd, I hope not.
Ergo erat Gallia in divisa tres.
Somos ‘Gallia.’
Obama is the military’s rubik’s cube.
bump ‘cause I like the title