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The Ides of March (Latin: Idus Martiae, Late Latin: Idus Martii)[1] was a day in the Roman calendar. It means 15 March in Julian calendar. Several religious observances marked it as a deadline for settling debts.[2] In 44 BC, it is well known as the date of the assassination of Julius Caesar. This made the Ides of March a turning point in Roman history.
Related pages
[change | change source]- Julius Caesar, a play by William Shakespeare
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Anscombe, Alfred (1908). The Anglo-Saxon computation of historic time in the ninth century (PDF). British Numismatic Society. p. 396.
- ↑ "Ides of March: what is it? Why do we still observe it?". 15 March 2011.
Other websites
[change | change source]- Plutarch, The Parallel Lives, The Life of Julius Caesar
- Nicolaus of Damascus, Life of Augustus (translated by Clayton M. Hall)