Fateful mid-month day

Usage examples of ides.

During the same year, on the ides of July, the temple of Castor was dedicated: it had been vowed during the Latin war in the dictatorship of Posthumius: his son, who was elected duumvir for that special purpose, dedicated it.

The following day, the Ides of October, the Etesian winds arrived with the dawn.

On the Ides of October in the second consulship of Vespasian Augustus, his first as Emperor T Flavins Domitianus L Aufidius Crispus Cn Atius Pertinax Caprenius Marcellus Ti Faustus Plautius Ferentinus A Curtius Gordianus A Curtius Longinus Q Cornelius Gracilis I name these men in duty to the Emperor and devotion to the gods.

They moved quickly, pushed past the brush, began to climb up out of the tangle, and Hill ides stopped, seeing two abruptly pulled his horse up short.

Gaius Julius Caesar, was born on the thirteenth day of Quinctilis, which meant that his birth was entered in the register at the temple of Juno Lucina as occurring two days before the Ides of Quinctilis, his status as patrician, his rank as senatorial.

Caesar arrived in Abydus on the Ides of October, he found the promised fleet riding at anchor-two massive Pontic sixteeners, eight quinqueremes, ten triremes, and twenty well-built but not particularly warlike galleys.

Then Doug’s astrologist told him that he could begin a new—a fabulous new life—thirteen days after the Ides of March, which is today, March twenty-eighth, 1920.

Their regular meetings were held on three stated days in every month, the Calends, the Nones, and the Ides.

Their regular meetings were held on three stated days in every month, the Calends, the Nones, and the Ides.