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Title: The real story behind the assassination of Julius Caesar (The Ides of March)
Post by: TomSea on March 15, 2020, 07:56:53 pm

Bing has up, on this day in history,  Julius Caesar was killed, must be the   Ides of March  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ides_of_March) as they say.  So, this happened even before Christ was born?

https://www.bing.com/search?form=MOZTSB&pc=MOZI&q=ides+of+march (https://www.bing.com/search?form=MOZTSB&pc=MOZI&q=ides+of+march)   44 BC.

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The real story behind the assassination of Julius Caesar
By Larry Getlen
March 1, 2015 | 6:00am

On Feb. 15, in the year 44 BC, Julius Caesar, the all-powerful ruler of Rome, visited a soothsayer named Spurinna, who “predicted the future by examining the internal organs of sacrificial animals,” among other omens.

As per the ritual, Caesar “sacrificed a bull,” and Spurinna “made the chilling announcement that the beast had no heart.”

Brave Caesar was “unmoved,” but Spurinna said that he feared Caesar’s life “might come to a bad end,” and warned the dictator that “his life would be in danger for the next 30 days.”

See more at: https://nypost.com/2015/03/01/the-real-story-behind-the-assassination-of-julius-caesar/ (https://nypost.com/2015/03/01/the-real-story-behind-the-assassination-of-julius-caesar/)