"Who said ""the die is cast"" as he crossed the Rubicon?"
Crossing the Rubicon Italy. In January of 49 BC, Caesar brought the 13th legion across the river, which the Roman government considered insurrection, treason, and a declaration of war on the Roman Senate. According to some authors, he is said to have uttered the phrase ""alea iacta est""—the die is cast— as his army marched through the shallow river. Today, the phrase ""crossing the Rubicon"" is an idiom that means to pass a point of no return. 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
He Who Must Die reviewed in "Time" and "The New Yorker", and received awards in communist eastern Europe (Dassin was well known for his left-wing views), and even some liberal Catholics praised it. Bosley Crowther for "The New York Times" described it as "brutally realistic", praising the "daring sort of candor and relentless driving" in the way it works out the logic of the plot, and he also praised all of the cast. He Who Must Die He Who Must Die (, ) is a 1957 French film directed by Jules Dassin. It is based on the novel "Christ Recrucified" (also published as "The