2,074 Years Later, Julius Caesar’s 4 Words at the Rubicon Are Still the Most Famous Decision in Military History

He said it in Greek, quoting a comedy; the Latin everyone knows is a mistranslation written 170 years later; his own memoir skips the river. The full story of history's most famous decision — the trap, the crossing, Pharsalus, the Ides — and why the gambler's four words still name every point of no return.