2007-03-15 03:49:46 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Truthsayer bids you beware the Ides of March...
It's a freakin' PUN - have a sense of humor.
2007-03-15 04:15:53 · update #1
That's from Shakespeare's play "Julius Caesar", but I am not sure what your question is. It does reflect the date Brutus murdered Caesar.
2007-03-15 03:55:19 · answer #1 · answered by David M 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Hi,
Your 'question' isn't really a question, so I'll have to guess at what you need to know.
The 'Ides of March' was not a latin saying, but an imaginative invention by Shakespeare to represent the middle (15th) of the month. The day on which Julius Caesar was assassinated.
He had the phrase used in his play to issue a warning to Caesar (easy when you're writing more than a thousand years after the event!) that he would be killed on that day.
'Ides' as a word, was more common in the middle ages (it is totally unused now, of course) and was a contraction of two other words (can't remember them now, but my old teacher explained them to me in 1957/8) the word(s) meant, as I said earlier 'the middle of'.
Hope that helps...and careful...it's today!
Cheers,
BobSpain
2007-03-15 04:02:55 · answer #2 · answered by BobSpain 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When I was in high school, we were expected to memorize and then recite lines from "Romeo and Juliet" and "Julius Caesar". Unfortunately, I couldn't memorize them for s**t, but amazingly enough, I remember the part in which the soothsayer warns Julius Caesar to beware the Ides of March.:)
2007-03-15 03:55:48 · answer #3 · answered by tangerine 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ave Caesar!
2007-03-15 03:52:26 · answer #4 · answered by Gersin 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yay for the Shakespeare reference! on the instant's my birthday, so i'm constantly bewaring the Ides of March...extremely whilst the age quantity keeps crawling greater on the charts!
2016-10-18 10:55:15 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For Mr Bush, it has been the Ides of March from day one...
Brutus Pelosi and her band of cowards have been skulking at his back for years.
2007-03-15 03:55:42 · answer #6 · answered by Garrett S 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Nah. This day holds no malice for me, though I'm always wary of knife-wielding politicians.
2007-03-15 04:07:13 · answer #7 · answered by Michael E 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Oooh, that's today isn't it? I wonder if kings, emperors, and other people with big power get a little nervous on this day.
2007-03-15 03:54:46 · answer #8 · answered by daisyk 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yeah. I'm hungover. Darn shots!
2007-03-15 04:03:35 · answer #9 · answered by Mark 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
the warning that Ceasar did not heed. Then fall Caesar...
2007-03-15 03:53:48 · answer #10 · answered by hichefheidi 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋