Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Alea iacta est (\"The die is cast\") is a Latin phrase attributed by Suetonius (as iacta alea est [ˈjakta ˈaːlea est]) to Julius Caesar on January 10, 49 BC as he led his army across the River Rubicon in Northern Italy. With this step, he entered Italy at the head of his army in defiance of the Senate and began his long civil war against Pompey and the Optimates. The phrase is still used today in Italy (Il dado è tratto), Spain (La suerte está echada), French speaking countries (Les dés sont jetés), Greece (Ο κύβος ερρίφθη) and Poland (Kości zostały rzucone) to mean that events have passed a point of no return, that something, whatever it is, will inevitably happen."@en }
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- Alea_iacta_est abstract "Alea iacta est (\"The die is cast\") is a Latin phrase attributed by Suetonius (as iacta alea est [ˈjakta ˈaːlea est]) to Julius Caesar on January 10, 49 BC as he led his army across the River Rubicon in Northern Italy. With this step, he entered Italy at the head of his army in defiance of the Senate and began his long civil war against Pompey and the Optimates. The phrase is still used today in Italy (Il dado è tratto), Spain (La suerte está echada), French speaking countries (Les dés sont jetés), Greece (Ο κύβος ερρίφθη) and Poland (Kości zostały rzucone) to mean that events have passed a point of no return, that something, whatever it is, will inevitably happen.".