For those of you wondering what "Ides of March" means--
and what they meant way back when they quoted someone as
saying: "Beware the Ides of March" here is some info
on that!

Here is some more background:
Interesting--The Ides of March:
The word Ides comes from the Latin word "idus", a word that was used widely in the Roman calendar indicating the approximate day that was the middle of the month. The term ides was used for the 15th day of the months of March, May, July, and October, and the 13th day of the other months.[1] The Ides of March was a festive day dedicated to the god Mars and a military parade was usually held.

n modern times, the term Ides of March is best known as
the date on which Julius Caesar was assassinated in
44 B.C. Caesar was stabbed (23 times) to death in the
Roman Senate by a group of conspirators led by Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus. The group included 60 other co-conspirators according to Plutarch. Another point which arises is Shakespeare's use of
the Ides of March and (the lack of doubt in)
Marcus Brutus' decision to assassinate Caesar to
portray an atmosphere of madness, pleasure, and pandemonium. It is said that on ides of March the sea succumbs to chaos and the full moon brings high tides.
All these points give the Ides of March a very mysterious quality.[2]

According to Plutarch, a seer had foreseen that Caesar would be harmed not later than the Ides of March; and
on his way to the Theatre of Pompey (where he would be assassinated), Caesar met 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."[2] This meeting is famously dramatised in William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar, when Caesar is warned by the soothsayer to "beware the
Ides of March."[3][4]

Furthermore, Suetonius writes that the haruspex Spurinna warns Caesar of his death which will come "not beyond the Ides of March" as he is crossing the river Rubicon.

So...it's kindof a "dark cloud" when one refers to
"Beware the Ides of March"... We'll see how it goes
this year!
Cheers
SK