The Only Use of
Rubicon
in
Dante's Inferno
- [6] Curio the Tribune, banished from Rome, fled to Caesar delaying to cross the Rubicon, and urged him on, with the argument, according to Lucan, "Tolle moras, semper nocuit differre paratis.†
Canto 28-30cross the rubicon = a metaphor for a line, that when crossed permits no return, resulting in an irrevocable commitment
Definition:
river in northern Italy that, in ancient times, was the boundary between Italy and Gaul
or:
a metaphor for a line, that when crossed permits no return, resulting in irrevocable commitment (due to Caesar's having committed himself to war when he crossed the Rubicon in 49 BC)
or:
a metaphor for a line, that when crossed permits no return, resulting in irrevocable commitment (due to Caesar's having committed himself to war when he crossed the Rubicon in 49 BC)