MSEditorial The Ides of March indeed Today is the ides of March, the times the full moon fell on the 15th, although this month it was at 7:40 pm on March 7.
Many, including literature students in the Philippines, used to say beware the Ides of March, an expression derived from the historical fact that Julius Caesar was murdered by a group of Roman senators on the 15th of March, 44 BC.
The 60 dagger-wielding senators, led by his friends Brutus and Cassius, stabbed Caesar 23 times and claimed to be acting over fears Caesar’s unprecedented concentration of power during his dictatorship was undermining the Roman Republic, and presented the deed as an act of tyrannicide.The Ides of March—initially an ancient Roman marker used to reference dates in relation to lunar phases – took on a new meaning.
On the day of his death, he saw the oracle and joked that he had made it to the Ides of March, to which the fortune-teller responded the day had not yet ended. As the title suggests Udall took example texts from the works of Terence and translated them into English. One such text is:
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