Today, when someone has to make an important decision, people "You‘re about to cross the Rubicon." Crossing the Rubiconmeans that you‘re about to do something that you can‘t undo. We getthis expression from the story of Julius Caesar‘s return to Rome. - P267
So they gathered together an army and marched downtowards Egypt, ready to attack Caesar. Caesar hadn‘t forgot-ten how to fight, though. He got his own soldiers together anddefeated the Senate army in record time.
Caesar was known for his fast victories. In fact, after one vic-tory, when a friend asked him to describe the battle, he answered,
"I can do it in three words: Veni, Vidi, Vici." In Latin, the languageof the Romans, this meant, "I came, I saw, I conquered!" - P270