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Ides of March - Definition and Overview |
| Related Words: Accord, Advance, Amble, Anabasis, Arena, Backpack, Bailiwick, Beat, Beef, Bitch, Boggle, Border, Borderland |
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In the Roman calendar the ides of March falls on March 15. The ides was an auspicious day in the Roman calendar, falling on the 15th of March, May, July and October and on the 13th of the other months.
The date is famous because Julius Caesar was assassinated on the ides of March, 44 BC. According to the Roman writer Plutarch, Caesar had been warned of the danger but had disregarded the warning:
- What is still more extraordinary, many report that a certain soothsayer forewarned him of a great danger which threatened him on the ides of March, and that when the day was come, as he was going to the senate-house, he called to the soothsayer, and said, laughing, "The ides of March are come"; to which he answered, softly, "Yes; but they are not gone."
The Ides Of March is also a pop music group known best for their 1970 hit song "Vehicle".
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