"Passing the Rubicon. When he arrived at the banks of the Rubicon, which divides Cisalpine Gaul from the rest of Italy … he stopped to deliberate…. At last he cried out: "The die is cast" and immediately passed the river."
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Plutarch, Life of Julius Cæsar; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 641.
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