Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Beware the Ides of March, Vladimir

"They are come, but not yet gone."

Thus spoke the soothsayer to Julius Caesar when the dictator perpetuus said to the soothsayer that the Ides of March had come and he was still alive.

Dictator perpetuus has an overly confident ring to it much like eintausendjähriges Reich

Some history here.

Death of CaesarThe Death of Caesar (1798) by Vincenzo Camuccini


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