Sometimes the Ocean'ides or daughters of Ocean'us; sometimes the woodland nymphs.
When you close up, I sell bananas," said he; "that will be in the Ides of March.
The first day of the month was the calends of that month; whence they reckoned backwards, distinguishing the time by the day before the calends, the second day before the calends, and so on, to the ides of the preceding month.
From the nones they reckoned backwards to the calends, as they also did from the ides to the nones.
Read the letters that passed between Cicero and Matius a few months after the ides of March (ad Fam.
They celebrated the Ides of March by going to see Harriet Hosmer's statue of Zenobia, which was afterward exhibited in America.
The date which the Faithful honour as the feast-day of this noble one is the fifth of the ides of September according to the day of the solar month, and this day to-day according to the day of the week.
Footnote 1: Agnellus asserts that on the Ides of March in the year following Placidia's death Ravenna suffered from a great fire, in which many buildings perished, but he does not tell us what they were.
In one thousand three hundred and three times seven years of the Deity, he went back on September's Idesto his own stars.
But this same day Must end that work the ides of March begun.
Come therefore by God's assistance, come all into our presence on the eighth day before the Ides of June (June 6th), there solemnly to receive our royal largesse.
These three letters all relate to the same subject as the two preceding ones--the formation of a navy, and the rendezvous of ships and sailors at Ravenna on the Ides of June.
Ides of June (June 13th), sailors and ships to meet at Ravenna on, v.
Let all the fleet be assembled at Ravenna on the next Ides of June.
On the 14th of April he writes to Atticus, declaring that whatever evil might befall him he would find comfort in the ides of March.
It was now near the end of the year, and on the ides of March following it was fated that Cæsar should die.
It must be remembered that up to the ides of March he had heard of no conspiracy.
Nearly two thousand years ago the first Caesar found a Brutus on the Ides or 15th of March.
The ides of May were at that time the usual period for commencing office.
They enter on their consulship on the third day of the Ides of August, the state being now sufficiently strong, not only to repel a hostile attack, but even to act itself on the offensive.
After those transactions the consuls whom we have mentioned entered on office on the ides of December.
There is an ancient law written in antique letters and words, that whoever is supreme officer should drive a nail on the ides of September.
Being accosted, respecting the matter, on the very day, he said, the Ides of March are come, but not passed.
Spurinna had apprised Caesar of his danger, which could not extend beyond the Ides of March.
The thanksgiving was fixed, by proclamation in the assembly, for the fifth day before the ides of October, and the five days following.
The tribunes of the people met his evasion by the menace of another order,--that if he did not come into the city of Rome before the ides of November, Caius Licinius should judge and determine respecting him, though absent.
On the ides of December, the censors performed the general survey with more severity than formerly.
All these entered into office on the ides of March.
Accordingly, by proclamation, he fixed the election for the third day before the nones of August,[74] and the Latin festival for the third before the ides of the same month.
Cethegus caused the news to be published in all the streets with a flourish of trumpets, and announced that at the next Ides of October, eight thousand citizens would be relieved from duty on the walls.
When the Idesof October arrived, thick fog covered Ostia and the sea.
The Ides of January were kept as a festival to Jupiter, and the next day was also the anniversary on which Octavianus had been saluted by the title of Augustus.
This year went Bishop Elfric to Rome, and received the pall of Pope John on the second day before the ides of November.
The worthy Bishop Athelstan died on the fourth before the ides of February; and his body lies at Hereford.
And he gave leave to Bishop Leofwine [Of Lichfield] to consecrate the minster at Evesham on the sixth before the ides of October.
And Ethelnoth the monk, who had been dean at Christ's church, was the same year on the ides of November consecrated Bishop of Christ's church by Archbishop Wulfstan.
This year was Egelric consecrated Bishop of York, on the third day before the ides of January.
This year died Archbishop Eanbald, on the fourth day before the ides of August; and his body is deposited at York.
That was on the seventh day before the ides of December.
And in the same year died Godwin, Bishop of St. Martin's, on the seventh before the ides of March.
Eanbald also received the pall on the sixth day before the ides of September, and Bishop Ethelherd died on the third before the calends of November.
That was on the third day before the ides of January.
On the ides of March, the anniversary of that festival when the priestesses of Vesta rekindle the sacred flame, an unusual gloom oppressed her mind.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ides" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
