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Crossing the Rubicon
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.
==History==
During the Roman republic, the river Rubicon marked the boundary between the Roman province of Cisalpine Gaul to the north-east and Italy proper (controlled directly by Rome and its ''socii'' (allies)) to the south. On the north-western side, the border was marked by the river Arno, a much wider and more important waterway, which flows westward from the Apennine Mountains (its source is not far from Rubicon's source) into the Tyrrhenian Sea.
Governors of Roman provinces were appointed promagistrates with ''imperium'' (roughly, "right to command") in their province(s). The governor would then serve as the general of the Roman army within the territory of his province(s). Roman law specified that only the elected magistrates (consuls and praetors) could hold ''imperium'' within Italy. Any promagistrate who entered Italy at the head of his troops forfeited his ''imperium'' and was therefore no longer legally allowed to command troops.
Exercising ''imperium'' when forbidden by the law was a capital offence. Furthermore, obeying the commands of a general who did not legally possess ''imperium'' was also a capital offence. If a general entered Italy whilst exercising command of an army, both the general and his soldiers became outlaws and were automatically condemned to death. Generals were thus obliged to disband their armies before entering Italy.
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