Sunday, beautiful, warm day, 80's, partly cloudy in pm. Went to church and Sunday School, Jim's here for dinner. Went to park in pm, and over to Highland Valley Road to see about lumber for Jim's chicken house, picked up David and Liz.
Comment: Double church Sunday, The Ides Of March: 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." There's always a smart ass somewhere.....
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