Today is March 15th, and many many years ago Julius Caesar was stabbed and killed by some of the Roman senators. After Shakespeare’s play, the quote “Beware the ides of March.” has become quite popular.

Anyways, just wanted to share a fact I found online so I can sound smart if the topic arises today—and now you can too.

Before the “ides of March” became infamous, it was just the common way to say the 15th of March (and of May, and July, and October). According to the infoplease website, the first Roman calendar divided each month into three parts:
the 1st day of all months >KALENDS;
the 5th in all months (except March, May, July and Oct. in which it was the 7th) >NONES;
AND the 13th in all months (except March, May, July and Oct. in which it was the 15th) > IDES.

So how it works was, today we say it is the ides of March (3/15); yesterday was Pridie Ides (3/14: the day before the Ides); tomorrow is Ante Diem XVII Kalends (3/16: because the Kalends of April is 17 days away); and so on.
Simple enough right?

and that concludes the segment of “What I’ve Googled today..so far”

beware