Capitolo 73
to the top, and the question would be definite which of the two
you/he/she should have there his/her station.
CHAPTER YOU.
CROSSING THE RUBICON.
[Sidenote: The Rubicon.]
There was a small brook in the ancient durations, in the north of Italy that
flows toward west in the Sea of Adriatic, he/she called the Rubicon. This brook
you/he/she has been immortalized by the operations around which we am now
to describe.
[Sidenote: Your smallness as a brook.]
The Rubicon was a very important border, and still it was in himself this way
small and meaningless what time impossible is for determining which of
two or three that few bears here meeting himself/herself/itself with the sea they are entitled his
name and the renown. In history the Rubicon is a great, permanent, and
evident brook, looked fixed above with interest continued by every humanity
for almost twenty centuries; in kind it is an uncertain brooklet for a,
time along doubtful and indefinite, and finally lost.
[Sidenote: the importance of the Rubicon as a border.]
The Rubicon originally deduced his/her importance from the fact that it was
the border among that whole part of the north of Italy that is formed
from the valley of the Po, one of the richest and more magnificent
countries of the world and the Roman territories and more Southerners. This
country of the Po what was in those days called the _hither_
Gaul, and it was a Roman province. It now belonged to Caesar
jurisdiction as the commander in Gaul. Every south of the Rubicon was
territory reserved for the immediate jurisdiction of the city. The
Romans to protect himself/herself/themselves from some danger that it was able
you threaten their his/her own liberties from the immense armies that they raised
for the conquest of foreign nations, you/he/she had imposed a lot on every side
severe limitations and restrictions in in comparison to the approach of these
manages to the Capitol. The Rubicon was the limit on this northern side.
General that commands in Gaul they didn't have to ever pass him/it. To cross the Rubicon