The Ides of March and April being the “cruellest month” dominated the satellite stage recently.
“Ides” (from Latin idus) marked the approximate midpoint of Roman months. On March 15, 44 BCE, a few Roman senators stabbed Julius Caesar, a country immortalised by William Shakespeare in Julius Caesar, wherever a soothsayer warns Caesar astir his death “beware the Ides of March”. In The Waste Land, T.S. Elliot called April “the cruellest month”.

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