BEagle,. .I believe you are right, and so does my old Smith's Latin Dictionary:. .Jacta alea est- putting the participle first emphasises the decisive action envisaged.. .J Caesar is supposed to have said this in 49BC before crossing the Rubicon, which marked the boundary between Republican Italy and cisalpine Gaul, on his way to attack the senate.. .. .And the attribution of the speech on reorganisation is correctly attributed to C Petronius Arbiter- I remember having to translate it many years before the referenced HoL debate.