E TU BRUTUS?

The Ides of March also known as March 15 has come and gone, but when Julius Caesar in 44 BC had said the "ides of March have come and gone", his seer replied "the Ides have come, but not gone", where upon later in the senate, Marcus Julius Brutus, Gaius Casius Longinus and 60 others fell upon Caesar and stabbed him to death.

The saying of Caesar's soothsayer, according to Shakespeare, "Beware of the Ides of March" have taken on an immortality and people repeat it not knowing the source

nor the circumstance of the saying.

The Ides of March (March 15) according to the Julian calendar were days different from the Gregrorian calendar in use before Caesar changed the Roman calendar.

The date's significance predate the assignation since the 15th was the date debts were due ( Also the 15th of May, July and October--all other months on the 13th).

Also in Roman times it was a day to celebrate the god Mars with military parades etc.

Undoubtedly the month of March and the Ides of March have been significant in history, frequently the time of calamitous and world changing events. In Caesar's time, even with the dictator's death, the republic did not replace him, but Rome went on to have more dictators and decline.

With Love and Kindness,

THE HATMAN