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Beware the Ides of March!

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Beware the Ides of March!

lol - I can't be the only freak that warns people on this day.....can I?

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Posted 3/15/06 2:11 PM
 
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Re: Beware the Ides of March!

I warn everyone.

Behold the Ides of March

Posted 3/15/06 2:11 PM
 

Shorty
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Re: Beware the Ides of March!

Forget Friday the 13th. Ignore ladders, black cats, broken mirrors and spilt salt. Think instead of today, March 15, and beware.

As superstitions go, being wary of the ides of March is certainly more unusual. Yet the day does have a certain resonance.

In the complicated world of the Roman calender, there were 45 public festivals (not bad compared to the UK's eight bank holidays), as well as the ides of each month, days which were sacred to Jupiter.

In March, May, July and October, the ides fell on the 15th.

The Julian calendar, established by Julius Caesar, gave us the basis of our system of 365 days a year and 366 in a leap year. But for the most part, the Roman festivals of his time have had their day.




The ides of March, however, is one day that continues to appeal, marked because that was the date that Julius Caesar was assassinated in the senate, in 44BC.

Its modern-day memory is thanks, like so many things, to Shakespeare's way with words.

In act one, scene two of Julius Caesar, Caesar asks a soothsayer what the future holds.

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.

Although today the reference will not be understood by everybody, David Ewing Duncan, author of The Calendar, wrote that it was not always so.

A Roman saying "four ides" (meaning four days before the ides) would be just as clear to other Romans as someone saying March 11.

And furthermore, the system lasted 2,000 years, well into the Renaissance, he wrote. This meant Shakespeare could include the line, and expect his audience to know what he meant.

Test of time

However, just four hundred years later, the ides seems set only to survive as a literary and historical reference - in spite of it being the date by which debts (including Caesar's) were usually settled.

Professor Eileen Barker, of the London School of Economics, said it was a shame but the ides probably only had significance for schoolchildren reading Julius Caesar.

"I was thinking about this when I saw what date it was, and I thought no wonder I'm feeling awful," she said.

One significant historical event that fell on the ides of March is, perhaps, worth noting. It was on this day in 1876 that Test cricket was born.

Reason for anyone to beware? Perhaps for the English.

It was against Australia.

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Message edited 3/15/2006 2:16:59 PM.

Posted 3/15/06 2:13 PM
 

princess99
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Re: Beware the Ides of March!

I got engaged 4 years ago on March 15th... The ides of march. It was a great day for me!Chat Icon

Message edited 3/15/2006 2:52:37 PM.

Posted 3/15/06 2:52 PM
 

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Re: Beware the Ides of March!

My DH's baby sister just had a baby girl - a couple of hours ago. I'd say it's a pretty great day for themChat Icon

Posted 3/15/06 2:59 PM
 

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Re: Beware the Ides of March!

congrats, Auntie!!!!! Chat Icon

Posted 3/15/06 2:59 PM
 

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Re: Beware the Ides of March!

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congrats, Auntie!!!!! Chat Icon



ThanksChat Icon It's also a lady at work's birthday and we're going to have cake nowChat Icon

Posted 3/15/06 3:01 PM
 

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Re: Beware the Ides of March!

I'd say it's a pretty good day!!!...it's my birthday along with a few others I knowChat Icon Chat Icon Chat Icon Chat Icon

Posted 3/15/06 4:28 PM
 

LadyMaravilla
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Re: Beware the Ides of March!

Ok, I'm a wierdo....I have no idea what this is....Chat Icon Chat Icon Chat Icon Chat Icon Chat Icon Chat Icon

Posted 3/15/06 4:29 PM
 

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Ok, I'm a wierdo....I have no idea what this is....Chat Icon Chat Icon Chat Icon Chat Icon Chat Icon Chat Icon



Glad Im not the only oneChat Icon

Posted 3/15/06 4:31 PM
 

PupettaBella
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Re: Beware the Ides of March!

My sister gor married 3 three years ago to day, so I'd say it was a pretty good day for her!Chat Icon Chat Icon Chat Icon

Posted 3/15/06 4:35 PM
 

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Re: Beware the Ides of March!

I always tell everyone to beware.. every since that Shaekspeare play in 10 th grade I have been doing it. Chat Icon

Posted 3/15/06 5:22 PM
 

VirginiaDeb
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Re: Beware the Ides of March!

I told my kids that today! They were just looking at me funny Chat Icon

Posted 3/15/06 5:25 PM
 
 

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