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Crossing the Rubicon
REDIRECT
The
idiom
"
Crossing the Rubicon
" means to pass a
point of no return
, and refers to
Julius Caesar
's army's crossing of the
Rubicon River
in 49 BC, which was considered an act of
insurrection
and
treason
. Julius Caesar uttered the famous phrase "
alea iacta est
"—the die is cast—as his army marched through the shallow river.
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