/ · 1894 Brewer’s · D · Die
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The die is cast. The step is taken, and I cannot draw back. So said Julius Cæsar when he crossed the Rubicon.
“I have set my life upon the cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die.”
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Shakespeare: Richard III., v. 4.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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