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Ides

noun

In the Roman calendar: the 15th of March or May or July or October or the 13th of any other month.

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"Ides" Quotes from Famous Books

... what then? The ides of March are come, but not gone! Stay, if you plase, Mister Mordicai, till Lady-day, when it becomes due; in the meantime, I have a handful, or rather an armful, of bank-notes for ...

— The Absentee • Maria Edgeworth

... convent of Culhuacan [Mexico], the fifth ides of February, in the year of our Redemption one thousand five, ...

— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803, Volume II, 1521-1569 • Emma Helen Blair

... act by the way; and pay withal a thousand besans of gold (which, in English money, amounteth to five thousand pounds), for reparation of the damages thou hast done in this country. Half thou shalt pay to-morrow, and the other half at the ides of May next coming, leaving with us in the mean time, for hostages, the Dukes of Turnbank, Lowbuttock, and Smalltrash, together with the Prince of Itches and Viscount of Snatchbit (Tournemoule, ...

— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais

Words linked to "Ides" : day