* Alea Iacta Est is the name of the second largest World of Warcraft guilds (Horde, Earthen Ring server). * In the 2006 film, 'Bootstrap' Bill Turner told his son "The die is cast" after he bet his soul and an eternity of servitude on the Flying Dutchman. It is climbed by Joe Simpson in his book The Beckoning Silence.
* Alea Jacta Est is the name of a Grade 5 ice climb near La Grave in the French Alps. * In MC Solaar's 2007 song " Carpe Diem" as part of the chorus, "Le temps passe, | Alea Jacta Est | Qu'on vienne de Budapest ou de gare de l'Est | Alors Carpe Diem." * In the 2003 film, "Jacta Alea Est" is the slogan for the terrorist organisation Wild Seven, led by Shuya Nanahara. *"Alea jacta est" is the subject of a classroom lecture in the 2002 film, The Emperor's Club. *The phrase is displayed on one of the opening screens to the Playstation puzzle game Devil Dice. Breathe wrong and you'll change the way it lands." You're making everyone crazy." Will responds, "There's a moment after you cast the die but before it hits the table. *In Election Day-Season 4, Episode 7 of "The West Wing"-as Will Bailey runs around wildly trying to ensure a win for his dead candidate, Horton Wilder, in the 47th congressional district of California on election day, Elsie Snuffin says to him, "The die has been cast, big brother. "Alea Iacta Est, The Die is Cast, Once it's Started it Can Never End."
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*Alea Iacta Est is the password of Alpha Omega Theta Fraternity Inc, chosen by the fraternity's founder John Stefano in 1946. *In the television series, there is an episode by this very name, instead referencing the crossing of a joint Cardassian- Romulan fleet entering the Gamma Quadrant. *In each edition of the enormously popular French comic book Asterix, once Asterix sinks the pirates' ship, the first mate says to the captain, "Alea jacta est." dubious|Asterix * In the 1972 film Roma, at the very beginning, while crossing the Rubicon heading to Rome, the teacher screams to his students, "alea iacta est". Frankenstein says "The die is cast I have consented to return if we are not destroyed." See bottom of section I.], the phrase used was a future active imperative, "Jacta alea esto", "Let the die be cast!", or "Let the game be ventured!" by Shakespeare, that Caesar here meant "The die has been cast" i.e., "The die is now cast" and not "The die was cast."Īccording to "Lewis and Short", "Lewis and Short" at the Perseus Project.
In another context, "iacta est" could be translated as "was cast", i.e., as a "simple past." It is generally assumed, e.g. Plutarch reports that these words were said in Greek: Caesar was said to have borrowed the phrase from Menander, his favorite Greek writer of comedy. The phrase is rarely used today to mean that events have passed a point of no return, that something inevitable will happen, i.e., he cannot take back what he has done, much like the gambler who has already thrown the dice. With this step, he entered Italy at the head of his army in defiance of the Roman Senate and began his long civil war against Pompey and the Optimates. "Alea iacta est" (also seen as "alea jacta est") is Latin for "The die is cast".Actually quoted by Suetonius as "iacta alea est", it is what Julius Caesar is reported to have said on January 10, 49 BC as he led his army across the River Rubicon in northern Italy.