Tomorrow is the 15th of March that in the old Roman calendar like in May, July and October were called the Ides, the days which were sacred to Jupiter.
Caesar: Who is it in the press that calls on me?
I hear a tongue, shriller than all the music
Cry “Caesar!” Speak. Caesar is turn’d to hear.
Soothsayer: Beware the ides of March.
William Shakespeare: Julius Caesar, act one, scene two when Caesar asks a soothsayer what the future holds.


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