The soothsayer's warning to Julius Caesar, "Beware the Ides of March," has forever imbued that date with a sense of foreboding. But in Roman times the expression "Ides of March" did not necessarily evoke a dark mood—it was simply the standard way of saying "March 15." Surely such a fanciful expression must signify something more than merely another day of the year? Not so. Even in Shakespeare's time, sixteen centuries later, audiences attending his play Julius Caesar wouldn't have blinked twice upon hearing the date called the Ides.
The term Ides comes from the earliest Roman calendar, which is said to have been devised by Romulus, the mythical founder of Rome. Whether it was Romulus or not, the inventor of this calendar had a penchant for complexity. The Roman calendar organized its months around three days, each of which served as a reference point for counting the other days.
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2016-12-12 21:56:43 UTC
In Roman circumstances, the time period ides grow for use for the fifteenth day of the months of March, would, July, and October. The time period Ides of March is suitable common because the date that Julius Caesar grow to be killed in 709 AUC or 40 4 B.C. which grow to be dramatised in Shakespeares play. The time period has no different historic connotation i ought to discover.
Smart Kitty
2006-03-02 19:56:13 UTC
March 15. From Shakespeare's Julius Ceasar I think
Spock
2006-03-02 19:56:16 UTC
Ides (the 15th day in March, May, July, and October; the 13th in the other months)
2006-03-02 19:55:41 UTC
March 15, it is the day Julius Caesar was murdered.
2006-03-03 20:08:33 UTC
3/15
Sully
2006-03-02 19:58:48 UTC
March 15th. For the saying history see
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/ides1.html
taylorskeyfarm
2006-03-02 20:01:42 UTC
its the middle of march in old roman myth
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