# The Ides of March

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ides-of-march/294675>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 15, 2005, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ides-of-march/294675 "2005-03-15T18:41:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ides-of-march/294675/21 "2005-03-16T19:48:40Z")

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> [@RitzyRae](#):
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> I read an article yesterday that said the soothsayer wasn’t saying that the Ides of March were always something to be feared, but that the Ides of March is a Roman way of saying March 15. He was just telling Caesar to beware of that day because shit was going down.
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> Anyway, it was very intersting. The Roman calendar is … difficult with its Kalends, Nones and Ides. 🙂

Funny, I wouldn’t have thought to take it any other way. Caesar had many warnings, and apparently ignored all of them. Either he truly did not fear death (as he claimed), or his desire to maintain his dignity finally got the better of his common sense.

And, yes, the Roman calendar is frightfully complicated.

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