#idus martiae

The Death of Julius Caesar 

C.L. Doughty (1913-85)

“… introiit curiam spreta religione Spurinnamque irridens et ut falsum arguens, quod sine ulla sua noxa Idus Martiae adessent: quanquam is uenisse quidem eas diceret, sed non praeterisse.
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…he entered the senate-house, laughing at Spurinna as a false prophet, because the ides of March were come without any mischief having befallen him. To which the soothsayer replied, "They are come, indeed, but not past.” “

-Suetonius, Divus Iulius, 81.4

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