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“Beware the Ides of March”

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Le Antichità Romane, 1756, Via Appia, left side of two page spread

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Le Antichità Romane, 1756, Via Appia, left side of two page spread

William Shakespeare had a soothsayer utter that immortal warning to the Roman Emperor in his play, Julius Caesar

The Romans merely considered the ides the fifteenth day of March, the month named honor of the god of war, Mars.

—Elizabeth Periale

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