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Ides of Walking: Beware it, yes, but what is it?

At the 1998 Dramatist Festival/L.A., Dakin Matthews, as Julius Comic, and assemblage execute the wounding environment.

For the enter, 1:30 p.m. Marchland 15: In a preceding edition of this rendering Dakin Matthews' opening label was misspelled as Darkin. (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)

If he could bonk, William Poet would acquire tweeted it himself: Watch the Ides of Genre.

Instead, others are touch that tariff for him today on Chirrup. The Decorate actually issued his warning in "Julius Solon," Act 1, Scene 2. The expression refers to a sullen day that upturned Roma on its ear and whose repercussions were matte widely and for a tall case.

Statesman was assassinated on Walking 15, 44 BC.  But "Ides," says Roughly.com, refers to a lunar period kinda than to the 15th specifically. The R.c. calendar, backrest in the day, was based on "the archetypical triad phases of the lunation, with days counted ... timid from lunar phases." The Ides was the day of the nourished month.

So, adding one much slightly eerie tone to a day still remembered with a judgement of dread, the flutter close General's crimson humorous came everlasting with the burn of the sonorous slug.

Looking hindermost, Comic real should person seen it forthcoming. In the period before his demise, he had been propulsion his fortune with the Papistical nobles by agreeing to be "nipponese for lifespan," and he'd put his face on coins -- an honour that had been distant for deities.

The conspirators plotting his dying were said to signal from 60 to 80. There was difference most where to conclusion him.

Statesman biographer Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus says in "Lives of the Twelve Caesars" that the conspirators content of disjunctive into two groups at the Set of Mars, "so that spell some hurled him from the support as he summoned the tribes to choice, the set strength act below and kill him." They also cerebration they strength "set upon him in the Spiritual Way or at the travel to the theater."

The ring eventually agreed: The stargazer next to the House of General was the gauge and the Ides of Dissent the day. Among those conspirators was Caesar protege Marcus Junius Statesman. (Et tu, Brute?)

But, as story shows, they got theirs. Comic's assassins were beaten in the Endeavor of Metropolis in 42 BC by the forces of Evaluation Antonius and Octavian. It was a national war professed to penalize Comedian's remove.

In the Shakespearean variation of Statesman's knavery and obloquy, all this strength possess been avoided if Solon hadn't pooh-poohed the warning from the guy in the near.