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Spiel und Tod (268 Aufrufe)
Γραικύλος schrieb am 18.09.2024 um 00:01 Uhr (Zitieren)
Aelian, Varia historia XIV 43:
Ptolemy, they say – which one of them, is a question to leave aside (1) - would sit down for a game of dice and regularly played draughts. Then someone stood by him to read the names of persons found guilty and add a word about the convictions, so that he could indicate which of them deserved the death penalty.

His wife Berenice took the document from the slave und would not allow the rest of it to be read out, saying “When one is making calculations about a man’s life ought one not to apply the faculties fully instead of playing a game?” The fall of dice and the collapse of a body were not the same.

Ptolemy was pleased with this and from that time onwards never conducted hearings involving human life at the same time as playing dice.

(1) Es handelt sich um Ptolemaios III. Euergetes (reg. 246-221 v.u.Z.)
 
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