In 11 days we shall be celebrating the 2050th anniversary of the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 BC. However, the difference between the Julian and Gregorian calendars means that the actual anniversary should be commemorated 13 days after the 15th of March, but why toy with tradition?
"Caesar Et tu, Brute? -- Then fall, Caesar!
Cinna Liberty! Freedom! Tyranny is dead!
Run hence, proclaim, cry it about the streets.
Cassius Some to the common pulpits, and cry out
'Liberty, freedom and enfranchisment!'" -- Julius Caesar, iii.1
"Mark Antony Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
So let it be with Ceasar. The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious,
If it were so, it was a grievous fault;
And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it..." -- Julius Caesar, iii.2
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4765882.stm
"No one is so strong as to be unperturbed by the unexpected." -- On the Gallic Wars, xi.39
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