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Did Julius Caesar say “The die is cast”?

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Did Julius Caesar say “The die is cast”?

Found word for word. Yes. The text appears in works attributed to Julius Caesar. Source and location below.

There was a little bridge across the Rubicon at the point where Caesar was surveying it. While he was standing there, the story is, a peasant or shepherd came from the neighboring fields with a shepherd's pipe--a simple musical instrument, made of a reed, and used much by the rustic musicians of those days. The soldiers and some of the officers gathered around him to hear him play. Among the rest
History of Julius Caesar — Jacob Abbott, CHAPTER VI. · ¶315 · Public domain (US), Project Gutenberg #11688 · source
And Eubulus, in his Chrysille, says— May that man, fool as he is, who marries A second wife, most miserably perish; Him who weds one, I will not blame too much, For he knew little of the ills he courted. But well the widower had proved all The ills which are in wedlock and in wives. And a little further on he says— O holy Jove, may I be quite undone, If e'er I say a word against the women, The cho
The Deipnosophists — Athenaeus, 7.8 · CC BY-SA 4.0 (Perseus Digital Library) · source
As he stood in doubt, this sign was given him. On a sudden there appeared hard by a being of wondrous stature and beauty, who sat and played upon a reed; and when not only the shepherds flocked to hear him, but many of the soldiers left their posts, and among them some of the trumpeters, the apparition snatched a trumpet from one of them, rushed to the river, and sounding the war-note with mighty
The Deified Julius — Suetonius, 2.32.1 · CC BY-SA 4.0 (Perseus Digital Library) · source

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