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9 May 2008
Top Story: The 'Ides of March'... In January?
By Nicholas Sewell
It's one of Shakespeare's most memorable phrases... Julius Caesar is told by a soothsayer that he should ‘Beware the ides of March'. The play wastes little time delivering the danger and soon we find the dictator murdered by his colleagues -...
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It's one of Shakespeare's most memorable phrases... Julius Caesar is told by a soothsayer that he should ‘Beware the ides of March'. The play wastes little time delivering the danger and soon we find the dictator murdered by his colleagues -...
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