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In the Roman calendar the 15th of March, May, July, and October, and the 13th of all the other months. (Latin and Etruscan, iduāre, to divide. The middle of the month. Always eight days after the Nones.)
“Remember March; the ides of March remember.”
Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar, iv. 3.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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