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March 15, 44 B.C.E.

The Ides of March

On this date in 44 B.C.E., members of the Roman Senate, including Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, and 60 other co-conspirators, stabbed to death Julius Ceasar. According to the contemporary historian Plutarch, an oracle warned Caesar to be on his guard against a threat to his life on the Ides of March. On his way to the where he would be assassinated, Caesar commented "Well, the Ides of March have come." The oracle replied "Aye, they have come, but they are not gone."