Beware the Ides of March
" beware the ides of march"!
"...But perhaps the strongest literary and historical association
of the month is not with the weather, but with the 'ides,' or middle day of the
month, in the ancient Roman calendar. Julius Caesar, who in Shakespeare's play
unwisely ignores the soothsayer's warning, 'Beware the Ides of March!', was murdered
on the Ides (15th) of March in a conspiracy led by Brutus and Cassius."
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