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Re: Crossing the Rubicon (211 words) |
 | Crossing the Rubicon is crossing the point of no return. |
| RUBICON - Cross the rubicon: "(ru bi kan) a boundary or limit, which when crossed commits a person irrevocably. |
| In 49 B.C., Julius Caesar led his army to the banks of the Rubicon, a small river that marked the boundary between Italy and Gaul and which the Roman Senate had forbidden him to cross. |
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Rubicon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (964 words) |
| Julius Caesar crossed the river in 49 BC deliberately as an act of war where he is supposed to have said that "the die is cast" and where he would eventually come to power. |
| The river was considered to mark the boundary between the Roman province of Cisalpine Gaul to the north and Italy proper to the south; the law thus protected the republic from internal military threat. |
| After Caesar’s crossing, the Rubicon was a geographical feature of note, but only for a few years, until imperator Augustus abolished the Province of Gallia Cisalpina (today’s northern Italy) in 42 B.C, and the river ceased to be the extreme border line of Italy. |
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