![]() ![]() The alliance between Caesar, Pompey and Marcus Licinius Crassus had been an informal coalition, know to history as the First Triumvirate. ![]() there were some political tensions between Caesar and Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, also known as Pompey, a man he had previously been in an alliance with. JULIUS CAESAR AND THE CROSSING OF THE RUBICON, FRANCESCO GRANACCI, 1494. However, in order to get a good grasp of the meaning of Caesar’s enormously famous expression, let me just give you a short recap of the story. Movies have been made, books have been written, TV-series produced,so we shall not dwell too long on the issues of war. Thousands of pages have been written about Julius Caesar, Pompey and the Civil War fought between them. On January 10th, 49 B.C., Gaius Julius Caesar uttered one of history’s most famous lines, Iacta alea est (sometimes written alea iacta est), after which he crossed the Rubicon river with his army and set the Roman Civil War in motion.
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