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 Di’do.Die. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Die.
 
The die is cast. The step is taken, and I cannot draw back. So said Julius Cæsar when he crossed the Rubicon.
       
“I have set my life upon the cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die.”
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Shakespeare: Richard III., v. 4.
 


 Di’do.Die. 

 
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