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    The month of Martius was named for the god Mars, whose "birthday" was celebrated on the 1st, but the Ides of each month were sacred to Jupiter, the Romans'...
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    particular, the most important days of each month—its kalends, nones, and ides—seem to have derived from the new moon, the first-quarter moon, and the full...
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    11th 14: anniversary of the Temple of Mars Invictus (Mars the Unconquered); a second procession of the Argei 15 (Ides): Mercuralia, in honor of Mercury;...
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    Laran festival was celebrated on the Ides of May. Laran is the Etruscan equivalent of the Greek Ares and the Roman Mars. Like many other Etruscan gods, his...
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  • writer Roger Zelazny. Zelazny's originally intended title for it was The Ides of Octember. It won the 1965 Nebula Award for Best Novella (which it shared...
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  • Richard-Bessière Hallali cosmique by Pierre Barbet Les Ides de Mars by Peter Randa Le Traître de Tuglan by Clark Darlton and Karl-Herbert Scheer Le Quatrième...
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  • ISBN 2010153375. 1970: Le siècle d'Auguste 1973: Les Ides de Mars : l'assassinat de César ou de la dictature ? 1986: Ausone ou les ambitions d'un notable...
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    multi-paradigm system programming language created by Walter Bright at Digital Mars and released in 2001. Andrei Alexandrescu joined the design and development...
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    as indicated by the name (per annum). Anna Perenna's festival fell on the Ides of March (March 15), which would have marked the first full moon in the year...
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    of arts, trade, and strategy. Minerva is not a patron of violence such as Mars, but of strategic war. From the second century BC onward, the Romans equated...
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