2 05 pm February 20, 2012
Derivations of Labor's Shakespearan tragedy.
Some commentators contemplate Ides of March ? It have
come in February, ye Laboring leftists.
No way can Labor avoid the third round of backstabbing -
with the loser becoming candidate for permanent sinecure as Leader of the
Opposition.
If the party survives.
Mars, Roman god of war would be bemused. The protagonist
surviving a judiciously placed knife - for the knifee to indubitably suffer the
same fate. From the same person. It is sad when a moribund political party with
such a palpably barren leadership group need to shamelessly resurrect a discarded
leader.
Come to think of it - John Howard- AKA Lazarus had a
triple bypass, non?
.Geoff Seidner
13 Alston Grove
East St Kilda 3183
03 9525 9299
13 Alston Grove
East St Kilda 3183
03 9525 9299
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Ides of March
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the day in the Roman calendar. For other
events that occurred on 15 March, see March 15. For
the 2011 film directed by George
Clooney, see The Ides of March
(film). For other uses, see Ides of March
(disambiguation).
The Ides of March (Latin: Idus
Martii) is the name of the 15th day of March in theRoman
calendar, probably referring to the day of the full moon. The word Ides
comes from the Latin word "Idus" and means "half division" especially in
relation to a month. It is 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.
In modern times, the
term Ides of March is best known as the date on which Julius
Caesar was killed 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.[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
that seer and joked, "The ides of March have come", meaning to say that the
prophecy had not been fulfilled, to which the seer replied "Ay, Caesar; but not
gone."[3] This meeting is famously dramatized in William
Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar,
when Caesar is warned by the soothsayer to "beware the Ides of March."[4][5]
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