Soothsayer
Beware the ides of March.
CAESAR
What man is that?
BRUTUS
A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March.
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CAESAR
Set him before me; let me see his face.
CASSIUS
Fellow, come from the throng; look upon Caesar.
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CAESAR
What say'st thou to me now? speak once again.
Soothsayer
Beware the ides of March.
CAESAR
He is a dreamer; let us leave him: pass.
Act I Scene II of Julius Caesar by Shakespeare
The term ides (Latin: Idus Martii) was used in the Roman calendar as the name of the 15th day of the months of March, May, July and October, and the 13th day of the other months. It may have referred to the full moon.
The Ides of March was a festival day, honoring the god Mars. However, it is most known as being the day on which Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44 B. C. He was stabbed 23 times by 60 co-conspirators led by Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus.
On his way to the Theater of Pompii, where he was killed, Caesar met the seer who had warned him to "beware the ides of March." This meeting is famously dramatized in Shakespear's play Julius Caesar.
