I n 44 A.D. a seer warned Julius Caesar to “beware the ides of March!” Shakespeare’s play made the phrase famous.
So what are “ides”? The Romans referred to the 15th day of March, May, July and October as the ides of that month. For the rest of the months, the ides of the month were on the 13th.
Caesar should have paid more attention to the seer. On March 15 more than 60 of…