Caesar had known that many wished him dead and a soothsayer allegedly warned him that harm would come to him before the Ides of March. On 15 March, Caesar reportedly passed the soothsayer joking, \u201cThe Ides of March have come,\u201d but was met with the ominous reply, \u201cAye, Caesar, but not gone.\u201d<\/div>\n\n

This moment has been immortalised by William Shakespeare<\/a> in his play, Julius Caesar.<\/em> It is from Shakespeare that we have the famous warning given by the soothsayer: \u201cBeware the Ides of March.\u201d<\/div>\n\nCaesar\u2019s murder failed to bring back the Republic, but triggered the start of the Roman empire<\/a> under his adopted heir, Octavian (known as Augustus<\/a>).<\/div>\n\n
Before the assassination, the Ides of March was best known as a festival. The popular time for feasting and drinking marked the festival of Roman deity Anna Perenna. It was also traditionally the time to settle debts \u2013 Julius Caesar certainly paid his.<\/div>\n
This Q&A was taken from a <\/em>2014 issue of BBC History Revealed magazine<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n
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