Scientia potentia est phrase ""sapientia est potentia"" is often translated as "wisdom is power". The earliest documented occurrence of the phrase "Knowledge is power" is from Imam Ali (599-661 CE), as recorded in the tenth-century book Nahj Al-Balagha (originally in Arabic). He said: Another account of this concept is found in the Shahnameh by the Persian poet Ferdowsi (940–1020 CE) who wrote: "Capable is he who is wise" (in Persian: توانا بود هر که دانا بود). This hemistich is translated to English as "knowledge is power" or "One who has wisdom is powerful". A proverb in practically the same wording is found in
Menander army to civil war by crossing the River Rubicon. The popular form "the die is cast" is from the Latin "iacta alea est", a mistranslation by Suetonius, 121 AD. According to Plutarch, the actual phrase used by Julius Caesar at the crossing of the Rubicon was a quote in Greek from Menander's play "Arrhephoros", with the different meaning "Let the die be cast!". See discussion at "the die is cast" and ""Alea iacta est"". "Lewis and Short", citing Casaubon and Ruhnk, suggest that the text of Suetonius should read "Jacta alea esto", which they translate as "Let the die be