2007-03-02 00:30:28 · 14 answers · asked by sterling4038923 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
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2007-03-02 00:32:46 · answer #1 · answered by booge 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
March 15.
2007-03-02 01:27:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The term Ides comes from the earliest Roman calendar, which is said to have been devised by Romulus, the mythical founder of Rome. Whether it was Romulus or not, the inventor of this calendar had a penchant for complexity. The Roman calendar organized its months around three days, each of which served as a reference point for counting the other days:
Kalends (1st day of the month)
Nones (the 7th day in March, May, July, and October; the 5th in the other months)
Ides (the 15th day in March, May, July, and October; the 13th in the other months)
The remaining, unnamed days of the month were identified by counting backwards from the Kalends, Nones, or the Ides. For example, March 3 would be V Nones—5 days before the Nones (the Roman method of counting days was inclusive; in other words, the Nones would be counted as one of the 5 days).
Days in March
March 1: Kalends; March 2: VI Nones; March 3: V Nones; March 4: IV Nones; March 5: III Nones; March 6: Pridie Nones (Latin for "on the day before"); March 7: Nones; March 15: Ides
There, more information that you ever wanted about 'ives of march'.......
2007-03-02 00:41:30 · answer #3 · answered by credo quia est absurdum 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's the Ides of March, not ives.
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.
2007-03-02 00:34:33 · answer #4 · answered by rosecitylady 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think all the 'ides' of march answers are correct and this is a simple typo but if 'Ives' was what you really intended then only thing I can come up with is "The Ives of March," a program of music by American composer Charles Ives.
2007-03-02 00:39:53 · answer #5 · answered by sue b 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is the Ides of March. It is the middle of the month, so the ides of March is March 15th. The ides of April is April 15. The Romans used that term in their calendar.
2007-03-02 00:34:11 · answer #6 · answered by diogenese_97 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is not the ives of march but ides of March ie 15 march
2007-03-02 00:33:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Ides of March as it is refered is the day when Julius Cesear said to his assasins at Rome y tu Bruti? where Ceasear was assasinated Friday March 13 or something like that dont know the year though I think in the third century
2007-03-02 00:39:04 · answer #8 · answered by Bruno C 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The ides of march is 15th of march..
a soothsayer told julius caesar to be aware of the ides of march cuz it would bad for him..
and caesar was assassinated on this day..
2007-03-02 00:35:25 · answer #9 · answered by pulverizer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's the ides of march, not the ives
in the ancient roman calendar, the ides of any month was the mid-point thereof; the ides of *march* is famous b/c that's when julius caesar was assasinated. in shakespeare's play by that name, a female soothsayer approaches him and says "beware the ides of march"
2007-03-02 00:35:37 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you mean: Ides of march
2007-03-02 00:34:33 · answer #11 · answered by John 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋