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| The Death of Caesar (1798) by Vincenzo Camuccini |
Well, I guess it wasn't so happy for old Julius Caesar, though, was it? The Ides of March is best known as the date on which Caesar was assassinated in 44 BC, stabbed to death at a meeting of the Roman Senate. According to Plutarch, a seer had warned that harm would come to Caesar no later than the Ides of March. On his way to the Theatre of Pompey, where he would be assassinated, Caesar passed the seer and joked, "The ides of March have come," meaning to say that the prophecy had not been fulfilled, to which the seer replied "Aye, Caesar; but not gone."
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