Why should we beware the ides of March?
via Garden Detective on 1969-12-31, 19:00:00
Tomorrow is the Ides of March. All that means, really, is that it's the 15th of the month. In the ancient Roman calendar, the 15th of March, May, July and October were referred to as the ides, as were the 13th of the other months. Each ide indicated the halfway point of the lunar month in question, as idus means "divide" in Latin. . ..
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