Idus
Idus (latinets iduare, "att dela") är namnet på månadens mittdag. På grund av att den romerska kalendern gick helt efter månens cykler inföll idus på den 15:e i mars, maj, juli och oktober, men på den 13:e i övriga månader.
Julius Caesar mördades på idus martiae, det vill säga den 15 mars. Caesar mötte spåmannen som förutspått att han skulle dö den 15 mars, och sade till honom "idus av mars har kommit", och fick svaret "men inte gått". Mötet har dramatiserats i William Shakespeares pjäs Julius Caesar, där spåmannen säger till Caesar "akta dig för idus av mars" ("Beware the Ides of March").
Idus är femininum nominativ plural och heter iduum i genitiv plural.
Referenser
- Den här artikeln är helt eller delvis baserad på material från engelskspråkiga Wikipedia, Ides of March, 13 mars 2015.
Webbkällor
- ”Ides, Roman chronology”. Encyclopædia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Ides. Läst 15 mars 2024.
- Ostberg, René. ”Ides of March, Roman history”. Encyclopædia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Ides-of-March. Läst 15 mars 2024.
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Famous coin issued by Marcus_Junius_Brutus with his own portrait on the obverse. Shown on the reverse are the symbols of the murder of w:Gaius Julius Caesar: Phrygian/Liberty Cap (Latin: pileus, symbol of the Dioscuri, the liberators of Rome and the cap symbolically given to slaves in obtaining their freedom), two daggers, and EID MAR (short for Eidibus Martiis – on the Ides of March) or March 15, the date Gaius Julius Caesar was murdered. Cassius Dio (History of Rome XLVII 25.3.) Mentions this coin: "Brutus had on the coins his own image and a cap and the two daggers and with the inscription that he and Cassius had liberated the fatherland". It is a silver denarius (example shown: 3.6 gr) struck in Northern Greece by a coinage traveling with Brutus, probably right before the battle of Philippi (42 BCE), where he and the other Caesaricides were defeated by Caesar’s successors, Mark Antony and Octavian (later Augustus). The inscription on the front is L. PLAET. CEST BRVT IMP (L. Plaetorius Cestianus (moneyer) Brutus Imperator). Due to its rarity and special historical significance, this is one of the most famous and valuable coins of all time (the value of the depicted specimen is estimated at about $ 40,000.00 (as of May 2004). Source: Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. (CNG) A gold version of the coin was auctioned on 2020-10-29 for £2,700,000 (about $3.4 million USD)
Famous coin issued by Marcus_Junius_Brutus with his own portrait on the obverse. Shown on the reverse are the symbols of the murder of w:Gaius Julius Caesar: Phrygian/Liberty Cap (Latin: pileus, symbol of the Dioscuri, the liberators of Rome and the cap symbolically given to slaves in obtaining their freedom), two daggers, and EID MAR (short for Eidibus Martiis – on the Ides of March) or March 15, the date Gaius Julius Caesar was murdered. Cassius Dio (History of Rome XLVII 25.3.) Mentions this coin: "Brutus had on the coins his own image and a cap and the two daggers and with the inscription that he and Cassius had liberated the fatherland". It is a silver denarius (example shown: 3.6 gr) struck in Northern Greece by a coinage traveling with Brutus, probably right before the battle of Philippi (42 BCE), where he and the other Caesaricides were defeated by Caesar’s successors, Mark Antony and Octavian (later Augustus). The inscription on the front is L. PLAET. CEST BRVT IMP (L. Plaetorius Cestianus (moneyer) Brutus Imperator). Due to its rarity and special historical significance, this is one of the most famous and valuable coins of all time (the value of the depicted specimen is estimated at about $ 40,000.00 (as of May 2004). Source: Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. (CNG) A gold version of the coin was auctioned on 2020-10-29 for £2,700,000 (about $3.4 million USD)