Ides of March

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In modern times, the term Ides of March is best known as the date that Julius Caesar was killed in 44 B.C.

Julius Caesar was stabbed (23 times) to death in the Roman Senate led by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus and 60 other conspirators.

On his way to the Theatre of Pompey (where he would be assassinated), Caesar saw a seer who had foretold that harm would come to him not later than the Ides of March.

Caesar joked, "Well, the Ides of March have come", to which the seer replied "Ay, they have come, but they are not gone."

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