Unfailingly, every year on 15 March, someone I know, and usually considerably more than one, will quote Spurinna, the soothsayer from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar: “Beware the Ides of March.”
It is a testimony to the apparent endless allure of a conspiracy to murder a man over 2,000 years ago, or at least of Shakespeare’s ability to say something so pithy about it, that it becomes a part of our culture, like “To be or not to be.”
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