"Beware the Ides of March" is a seafarers maxim which has no relevance to the placid waters of the Mediterranean much less Ancient Rome.
13.6.2021
The expression The Ides of March comes from the Latin phrase in delirium exigendi or in this context,loosely translated,"All hands on deck in an emergency." or more generally,"Needs must when the devil drives."
Read the plays of Shakespeare for a guide to English in its standardised version when Britain first became a great seafaring power and a force to be reckoned with...
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