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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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