“But Caesar, headlong in all his designs,
thought nothing done while anything remained to do.”

— Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, book Pharsalia

Sed Caesar in omnia praeceps,
nil actum credens, cum quid superesset agendum.
Book II, line 656 (tr. J. D. Duff).
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