Beware the Ides of March

• “Beware the Ides of March” is a quote from the Play ‘Julius Caesar’ by William Shakespeare.
  • It was a warning given to Julius Caesar by the Roman Soothsayer, the Haruspex Spurinna, where she predicted the Assassination of Julius Caesar.
  • Plutarch wrote that the Soothsayer gave a warning and William Shakespeare immortalised it in this now famous quotation.
  • The Ides of March meant the 15th of March, which originally coincided with the Full Moon.

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