You are probably asking yourself
why I chose the topic Ides of March
right? We are in the mont h
of March and the main topic is Things
That Go Marching so I felt it would be an appropriate topic. Additionally,
since my last name is Eide and it is
pronounced the same as Ide I figured
it would make for an amusing topic.
The term is Ides of March which in Latin is:
Idus Martiae. It is the name of the 15th day of March in the
Roman calendar, most likely referring to a day of a full moon. The Latin word Idus means half division or in this case the middle of the mont h. The Ides of March was a festive day
dedicated to the god Mars and a military parade was held during the celebration.
In modern times, the term Ides of March is known as the date on
which Julius Caesar was killed in 44 B.C. by a group of conspirators led by
Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus.
The story goes that a seer had
foreseen that Caesar would be harmed not later than the Ides of March on his
way to the Theater of Pompey. Caesar met with that seer and joked about it
saying, “The Ides of March have come”
meaning to say that the prophecy had not been fulfilled. The seer replied, “Ay, Caesar, but not gone.” This meeting is famously dramatized in
William Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar, when Caesar is warned
by the soothsayer to “beware the Ides of
March.”
Well there you go. That is the
basic explanation I can give you of the Ides of March and where it came from.
Although we are in the month of
March 2012, and my last name is pronounced the same way that Ide is pronounced,
please rest assured that you do not have to “beware the Eide’s of March.” lol
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