If you go to the Alciato's Book of Emblems at:
http://www.mun.ca/alciato/
and look at image number 130 at:
http://www.mun.ca/alciato/e130.html
you'll see an image of three women gambling with dice
The English caption goes:
Three girls of the same age once played a dice-game to
determine who would go first to the Stygian waters. The girl
whom the game of chance had given the unlucky throw was
laughing, blind to her fate - when suddenly she was killed by a
blow to the head from a falling roof-tile. She paid for her
audacious merriment with her life. In life's adversities, you can't
escape bad luck: yet even in good times, neither prayers nor
deeds suffice.
There's also an image of dice-playing in this emblem:
http://www.mun.ca/alciato/whit/w017.html
best wishes, Claire Lindsay
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