Time: The Ides of March

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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