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Alea iacta est (also seen as alea jacta est) is Latin for "The dice is cast". Latin ( lingua Latīna, laˈtiːna is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. For other uses see either Die or Dice (disambiguation. Dice (the Plural of Die, from Old French Actually quoted by Suetonius as iacta alea est [ˈjakta ˈaːlɛa ɛst], it is what Julius Caesar is reported to have said on January 10, 49 BC as he led his army across the River Rubicon in northern Italy. Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, commonly known as Suetonius (ca 69/75 &ndash after 130 was an equestrian and a historian during the Roman Empire. Events 49 BC - Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war. Year 49 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar. Events By place Rome Consuls Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Crus Rubicon ( Rubicō, Italian: Rubicone) is a 29 km long River in northern Italy. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest With this step, he entered Italy at the head of his army in defiance of the Roman Senate and began his long civil war against Pompey and the Optimates. The Roman Senate was a political institution in Ancient Rome. The Roman civil war of 49 BC sometimes called Caesar's Civil War, is one of the last conflicts within the Roman Republic. Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, commonly known as Pompey /'pɑmpi/ Pompey the Great or Pompey the Triumvir ( Classical Latin abbreviation Optimates (singular optimas, The Best of Men, Italian: ottimati; also known as the priests or boni, the

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The phrase is still used today to mean that events have passed a point of no return, that something inevitable will happen, i. The point of no return is the point beyond which someone or some group of people must continue on their current course of action either because turning back is physically impossible e. , he cannot take back what he has done, much like the gambler who has already thrown the die. Caesar was said to have borrowed the phrase from Menander, his favorite Greek writer of comedy. Menander ( Greek:, Menandros; ca 342&ndash291 BC Greek Dramatist, the best-known representative of Athenian New Comedy, was the son The term ancient Greece refers to the period of Greek history lasting from the Greek Dark Ages ca Plutarch reports that these words were said in Greek:

Ἑλληνιστὶ πρὸς τοὺς παρόντας ἐκβοήσας, "Ἀνερρίφθω κύβος," [anerriphtho kybos] διεβίβαζε τὸν στρατόν. Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus ( Greek: Μέστριος Πλούταρχος c

He [Caesar] declared in Greek with loud voice to those who were present 'Let the die be cast' and led the army across.

– Plutarch, 'Life of Pompey, Ch. 60'

In another context, "iacta est" could be translated as "was cast", i. e. , as a "simple past. " It is generally assumed, e. g. by Shakespeare, that Caesar here meant "The die has been cast" i. William Shakespeare ( baptised e. , "The die is now cast" and not "The die was cast. "

According to Lewis and Short[1], the phrase used was a future active imperative, Jacta alea esto, "Let the die be cast!", or "Let the game be ventured!"

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  1. ^ Online Dictionary: alea, Lewis and Short at the Perseus Project. Aleatory means "pertaining to luck" and derives from the Latin word alea, the rolling of Dice. The point of no return is the point beyond which someone or some group of people must continue on their current course of action either because turning back is physically impossible See bottom of section I.

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