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I see a lot of people saying it says "the die is cast" but the words appear to be in the wrong order. It should say "throw the dice." The actual quote is "alea iacta est" not "iacta alea est"... I would think if "E" was meaning to quite ceasar it would be accurate unless it was incorrect on purpose. Or possible was telling someone to throw the fucking dice and start.
Word order doesnt really matter in latin
Translation seems to be different based on word order...
Latins a weird language because its more interpretive. You tell what its saying by the words taking different forms. Iactus isnt the verb, est is which means is. Think of it the way yoda would talk. 'cast, the die is'
the emphasis would be different depending on which words you put first, but it's the same meaning. sentence structure in latin is based on word endings rather than the order of words like in english. you can take the words and scramble them all together randomly but if the endings are correct the meaning won't change.
in this case he just switched two words. it means the same thing.