“
Luck
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First roll of the dice that one throws to make play another ”, one reads in the Universal Dictionary of Furetière published in 1690. Julius Caesar would it have anything to do with this definition, he who pronounced, according to the legend, the words "Alea jacta est" (literally, the die is cast) as you cross the Rubicon River?
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What is the origin of the word luck?
What is certain is that something had to be dropped to cause the spell.
From the popular Latin cadentia, derived from cadere (to fall), luck is used at the outset to talk about the game of bones and dice thrown from top to bottom.
But be careful, originally, luck also rhymes with bad luck.
When we want to provoke it, it can be good or bad.
It is unpredictable and left to chance.
Let us remember, in fact, that the famous "Alea" of Julius Caesar was part of the dice game, designating by extension the fate!
Thus, we must not believe that all the blows were good.
What did "luck" mean?
Even if, from the 17th century,
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