[guide.chat] ides of march
- From: "harold kitching" <harold.kitching01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 16:03:06 -0000
Subject: B-F WarmFuzzyStories The Ides of March
The Ides of March (Latin: Idus Martii) is the name of 15 March in the
Roman calendar, probably referring to the day of the full moon. The
term ides was used for the 15th day of the months of March, May, July,
and October, and the 13th day of the other months.
The Ides of March was a festive day dedicated to the god Mars and a
military parade was usually held. In modern times, the term Ides of
March is best known as the date that Julius Caesar was killed in 44
B.C. Julius Caesar was stabbed 23 times and died in the Roman Senate in
an attack led by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus and 60
other co-conspirators.
On his way to the Theatre of Pompey, where he would be assassinated,
Caesar saw a seer who had foretold that harm would come to him no later
than the Ides of March.
Caesar joked, "Well, the Ides of March have come", to which the seer
replied "Ay, they have come, but they are not gone."
This meeting is famously dramatized in William Shakespeare's play
Julius Caesar, when Caesar is warned to "beware the Ides of March".
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