QUOTES FROM THE BARD

PLAY: Julius Caesar ACT/SCENE: 1.2 SPEAKER: Soothsayer CONTEXT: CAESAR
Who is it in the press that calls on me?
I hear a tongue, shriller than all the music,
Cry “Caesar!”—Speak. Caesar is turned to hear.
SOOTHSAYER
Beware the ides of March.
CAESAR
What man is that?
BRUTUS
A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March.
CAESAR
Set him before me. Let me see his face.
CASSIUS
Fellow, come from the throng. Look upon Caesar. DUTCH: Hoed u voor de’ Idusdag van Maart! MORE: Ides of March (15th) were originally the time for settling debts.
English playwright Nicholas Udall probably coined the expression ‘Ides of March’ in 1533 in his translations of descriptions of Caesar’s murder by Terence (Publius Terentius Afer, Roman poet), including: For Spurinna beinge a southsayer hadde warned Cesar before to beware of the Ides of Marche, for he shulde be slayne as that daye, and soo he was.

Press=Crowd
Soothsayer=Foreteller of events
Compleat:
Press=Gedrang
Soothsayer=Waarzegger Topics: order/society, suspicion