Ides of August

Ides of August

Et tu, brute?

Nah, that was March, this is August, what they call the "dog days", lord knows why. And why did I just think of Stephen King's "Cujo"? *sigh*

Anyway, dogs and idea--hope that works for you. Otherwise, I remember when my brothers had a can labeled "Campbell's Spider Soup" (you know Mad Magazine, right? This was back in the '60s). What kinds of strange foods are out there, anyway?

For some strange reason, the thought occurred to me to seek the
meaning of the Ides of August. I keep reading all this stuff
like "the Eighth Day of the Ides of August", so I wanted to clarify for folks that the ides seem to fall on either the 13th or the 15, the same as it mentioned on the site of the first link I posted (in the previous message). I do think there might be enough information in these links to give you a few story or poem (or even essay or journal entry) ideas.


http://www.theidesofmarch.com/home.htm

http://astrology.about.com/library/weekly/aa031500a.htm?once=true&

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/special_report/1999/02/99/e-cyclopedia/296942.stm

http://whoosh.org/epguide/ides.html

http://www.aurochs.org/zlib/cgi/date_roman

http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/cal/junsus.htm

http://www.hardydetectiveagency.com/evergreen/idesofaugust/idesintro.htm

http://www.madkane.com/wwwboard/messages/1617.html

http://www.the-privateer.com/gold/week117.html

http://ragz-international.com/battle_of_adrianople_ammianus___.htm

http://www.fellowshipofisis.com/jc/jcaug9.html

http://www.well.com/user/aquarius/seeck.htm

http://www.woso.com/BuenVivir/detalles.asp?bvid=138&cid=4

http://users.erols.com/jesterbear/notes/torches.html

http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/lightfoot/pt1vol2/hippo17.html

http://www.caw.org/greenegg/greenegg_oz.html

http://www.mysticwicks.com/showthread.php?t=6940

http://www.skepticfiles.org/krish/harmconv.htm

http://www.webofoz.org/heritage/Lammas.shtml

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/hanford/newsletr/fall01/summary.htm

http://www.brown.edu/Research/Catskills_Institute/tanney/bungalow14.html

http://omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu/mailing_lists/CLA-L/2001/08/0555.php

http://p199.ezboard.com/fchurchofthespiritfrm7.showMessage?topicID=60.t opic