Ides of March

What a bizarrely unhappy thing for such a hopeful time of year - when it's almost the end of winter and almost the beginning of spring...

Definitions of ides on the Web:

• In Rome, Ides was originally the day of a Full Moon. Later, its date became fixed as the 15th day of March, May, July & October and the 13th day in other months.
  
  www.highdown.reading.sch.uk/highdown/pupil/time/calendars/terms.html
• the 13th or the 15th of the month, depending on the month, in Roman dating
  medievalwriting.50megs.com/glossary2.htm
• The middle of a month usually the 13th or 15th
  www.romans-in-britain.org.uk/glo_glossary_i.htm
• A day in the middle of a month. It was the 15th in March, May, July, and October and the 13th in the other months. It belonged to Jupiter.
  myweb.tiscali.co.uk/temetfutue/glossary/glossaryI.htm
• Internet (formerly International) Demonstration and Education System; a database with model companies used for training in R/3.
  www.ryerson.ca/~ppille/sap/Resources/SAPterminology.htm
• in the Roman calendar: the 15th of March or May or July or October or the 13th of any other month
  wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

Definitions of ides of march on the Web:

• The fifteenth day of March and the day that famous assination of Julius Caesar by the conspirators ,Brutus and Cassius, took place.
  library.thinkquest.org/26907/glossary.htm
• March 15. A prophet told Julius Caesar to "Beware the Ides of March." Julius Caesar was too arrogant to take this threat seriously. He was also too arrogant to respect the Senate properly, and a number of Senators were rather upset with him, to put it lightly. On March 15, BC 44, Caesar went to the Senate to make an announcement, but was assassinated by 60 Senators, lead by Brutus. Caesar died at the foot of the statue of Pompey the Great.
  www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~frankwu/lac61vocab.html
• In the Roman calendar the ides of March falls on March 15. The ides was an auspicious day in the Roman calendar, falling on the 15th of March, May, July and October and on the 13th of the other months.
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ides_of_March
• Ides of March was an American rock band.
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ides_of_March_(band)