And he crossed the river Rubicon from his province in Gaul against Pompey, saying before all, ‘Let the die be cast.’ 1
1 Ibid. chap. xxxii. (723 F); Life of Pompey, chap. lx. (651 D); Suetonius, Divus Iulius, 32 ‘iacta alea est’ or ‘esto.’ The expression seems to have been proverbial; cf. Leutsch and Schneidewin, Paroemiographi Graeci, i. p. 383 and the references; Aristophanes, Frag. 673 Kock, Com. Att. Frag. i. p. 557 and Menander, Frag. 65, ibid. iii. p. 22.
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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