Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Alea iacta est" in English language version.
Though this play is now lost, the following dialogue from it was preserved in Athenaeus of Naucratis's Deipnosophistae (book 13, paragraph 8):
A: If you've got any sense, you won't get married
and give up living like this. I'm married
myself—which is why I'm advising you not to do it.
B: It's all decided; the die's been cast.
A: Go ahead—and good luck. Because you're going
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to throw yourself into a real sea of troubles now,
and not the Libyan or the Aegean sea...,
where less than three ships out of thirty
get wrecked. Not one married man escapes undamaged.