Ides Of March 2011: Interviews In A Long Island Mall About The Origins Of The Phrase (VIDEO)

In Shakesepeare's "Julius Caesar," a soothsayer tells Caesar, "Beware the Ides of March." Caesar dismisses the warning, but then ends up being murdered on March 15th, referred to as "the Ides of March" on the Roman calendar.

In the following Newsday video, a reporter asks Long Island mall shoppers if they know the famous phrase's origin. Will you be worried today?

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Comments

[Nicholas Rowley]

11:11 PM on 03/19/2011

Why would anyone feel anything but OK on the Ides of March like the reporter is asking. It's not the date that's unlucky, except in the case of Caesar but only because that was when he was predicted to die. Bad luck's not linked to the day in any other way.

[WebSloth]

03:46 PM on 03/16/2011

and you wonder how Peter King got elected?

[gevan]

11:28 AM on 03/16/2011

Et tu?

[kareemachan]

09:19 PM on 03/18/2011

Brute?

;-)