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This phrase alludes to Julius Caesar's crossing the Rubicon River (between Italy and Gaul) in 49 b.c., thereby starting a war against Pompey and the Roman Senate. Recounted in Plutarch's Lives: Julius Caesar (c. a.d. 110), the crossing gave rise to the figurative English usage by the early 1600s. See also: cross, the.
The phrase quod erat demonstrandum is a translation into Latin from the Greek á½ÏÎµÏ á¼Î´ÎµÎ¹ Î´Îµá¿Î¾Î±Î¹ (hoper edei deixai; abbreviated as Î¿ÎµÎ´). Translating from the Latin into English yields, what was to be demonstrated; however, translating the Greek phrase á½ÏÎµÏ á¼Î´ÎµÎ¹ Î´Îµá¿Î¾Î±Î¹ produces a slightly different meaning.erhaps the most famous use of Q.E.D. in a philosophical argument is found in the Ethics of Baruch Spinoza, published posthumously in 1677. Written in Latin, it is considered by many to be Spinoza's magnum opus.