Ides of March, day in the ancient Roman calendar that falls on March 15 and is associated with misfortune and doom. It became renowned as the date on which Roman dictator Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44 BCE.
On his way to the Theatre of Pompey, where he would be assassinated, Caesar passed the seer and joked, "The ides of March have come," meaning to say that the prophecy had not been fulfilled, to which the seer replied "Aye, Caesar; but not gone." This meeting is famously dramatized ...
CAESARWho is it in the press that calls on me?15 I hear a tongue, shriller than all the music, Cry "Caesar!" Speak; Caesar is turn'd to hear. SoothsayerBeware the ides of March. CAESARWhat man is that? BRUTUSA soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March. ...
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