2007-03-01 13:36:11 · 5 answers · asked by Patricia B 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
Literally,the phares means being careful of 15th of March.
Contextually the phrase refers to Julius Ceaser being warned by the soothsayer of the day.
2007-03-01 22:08:56 · answer #1 · answered by ♥The ≈ μŊđīş¢¤vέřệÞ ≈ Me♥ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the Roman calendar, the Ides of March fell on the 15th day of the Roman month of Martius. The date is famous because Julius Caesar was assassinated on the Ides of March, 44 BC. Because of Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar and its line "Beware the Ides of March", the term possesses a foreboding of doom.
Contemporarily speaking, although the term Ides had real meaning only in the Roman Calendar, which had just been displaced by the Julian Calendar, the term "Ides" was still used in a vernacular sense for centuries afterwards to denote the middle of the month.
2007-03-01 22:44:03 · answer #2 · answered by auhunter04 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Beware the ides of March was a warning given to Julius Caesar by a soothsayer in Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar. Caesar was murdered by his closest senators on the Ides of March, which is March 15.
2007-03-01 21:41:19 · answer #3 · answered by bradhurt2003 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Ides of March (March 15) was the date that Brutus killed Caesar. The phrase alludes to the date being unlucky, and a date of betrayal.
2007-03-01 21:42:30 · answer #4 · answered by kittenpie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's when Julius Caesar, the title character, was predicted to die in Shakespeare's play. "Ides" means the middle, so the "Ides of March" is March 15th.
2007-03-01 21:44:43 · answer #5 · answered by djbunz23 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋