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 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%