On this day in history...
Caesar summoned the Senate to meet in the Theatre of Pompey on the Ides of March. The Senate hated the Theatre of Pompey because of its no-boys policy. So they were pretty mad anyway.
A certain seer warned Caesar to be on his guard against a great peril on the day of the month of March which the Romans call the Ides; and when the day had come and Caesar was on his way to the senate-house, he greeted the seer with a jest and said: "The Ides of March has come," and the seer said to him softly: "Yes, the Ides of March has come, but it has not passed." Caesar thought that was a stupid thing to say and gave him a Roman salute, then had him crucified.
As the Senate convened - angry, frustrated - Caesar was attacked and stabbed to death by a group of senators who called themselves the Liberatores ("Liberators"), or as is commonly referred to today - The Singing Senators. They justified their action on the grounds that they committed tyrannicide and were preserving the Republic from Caesar's alleged monarchical ambitions.
And that's the 1,457th installment of...This day in history....
Happy Ides of March!
"Hey, Caesar, I got your back!"
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