event
Ides of March (assassination of Caesar)
Ides of March
also: Idus Martiae, the Ides
15 March 44 BC, the day Julius Caesar was assassinated in the Senate by Marcus Brutus, Cassius, and the other Liberators. Celebrated by Cicero as the restoration of liberty; in Fam. 9.14 he says his love for Brutus surged on that day.