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Creative Speculation

LakeArenal

(28,817 posts) Wed Mar 15, 2017, 10:06 AM Mar 2017

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Remind me again of the significance of The Ides of March.....

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Remind me again of the significance of The Ides of March..... (Original Post) LakeArenal Mar 2017 OP

That was when some Senators decied to get rid of their Caesar. In a backstabby way. DetlefK Mar 2017 #1

Et tu, Brute? WePurrsevere Mar 2017 #2

Actually, I've read that the real quote was COLGATE4 Mar 2017 #3

DetlefK

(16,423 posts)

1. That was when some Senators decied to get rid of their Caesar. In a backstabby way.

Reply to LakeArenal (Original post)

Wed Mar 15, 2017, 10:28 AM

Mar 2017

WePurrsevere

(24,259 posts)

2. Et tu, Brute?

Reply to LakeArenal (Original post)

Wed Mar 15, 2017, 10:51 AM

Mar 2017

Sorry, but I just couldn't resist using that quote.

Info and trivia about the ides of March:
http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/life/779378/ides-of-march-beware-meaning-julius-caeser-march-15

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/top-ten-reasons-to-beware-the-ides-of-march-8664107/

COLGATE4

(14,732 posts)

3. Actually, I've read that the real quote was

Reply to WePurrsevere (Reply #2)

Wed Mar 15, 2017, 11:57 AM

Mar 2017

"Tee hee, Brute". Not politically correct, so they changed it.

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