Loaded Dice
Jul/070
looking for a translation English-> Latin of the word “loaded” as applied to dice?
I’m looking for a reasonably colloquial term – as is “loaded” – for a T-shirt slogan to give to a statistician , with apologies to Caesar.
Actually found a phrase:
‘Tesseris per fraudem impariter ponduscula adere’
that translates to:
‘To put dishonest weights to dice’
‘Pondus’ = weight, and ‘-culum’ is a diminutive, so ‘podusculum’ means ‘little weight’, and that was what the Romans used for the ‘load’ in dice. Adding a suffix gives ‘pondusculosus’ = full of/having little weights = loaded
The whole phrase is probably too long, so some shorter ideas are;
Tesserae pondusculosae – Literally, ‘Dice full of little weights’ = Loaded Dice
Tesseris pondusculosis – Literally, ‘By means of dice with little weights. = By Loaded Dice
Numeri ex Tesseris pondusculosis = Numbers from loaded dice.
Loaded Dice play Jam Sessions
