![\"\"](\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/81\/2018\/03\/death-of-caear.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
Be fearful of exalted rank, o soul.<\/em> And when you are arrived at the supreme<\/em> C. P. Cavity<\/p>\n Ah, the Ides of March.<\/p>\n Best known in some circles as International kill a tyrant day.<\/p>\n It was, after all, as we all know, that on this day, the 15th of March, the Ides of March in the year 44 before our common era that Julius Caesar was killed, marking one of those moments in history where everything changed.<\/p>\n Or, maybe not so much.<\/p>\n It was, after all, the dawn of the end of the Republic. Something we might all be familiar with. Civil war would break out following the assassination. And as the dust, pooled in blood, settled into a sticky mess, Caesar\u2019s adoptive heir would claim what would become a throne. The throne\u2026<\/p>\n And, here we are. Once again in the great cycle of time rising, falling; we come to the day of the long knives and the end of a man who would be king.<\/p>\n Worthy of some thought. Several lessons to be gleaned, I find. It is timely, after all..<\/p>\n For one, I wish we heed the warnings we\u2019re given by our friends. Something also worthy of some thought.<\/p>\n And. And, I wish for all of us that today some tyrant lurking in our hearts dies. And. And I wish things don\u2019t turn out badly, not as they did for that long ago Republic.<\/p>\n May we do better in the great cycle of life and death.<\/p>\n
\n And if you are unable to subdue<\/em>
\n your aspirations \u2014 doubtingly pursue them<\/em>
\n and with precautions. And the more you rise,<\/em>
\n the more examining, the warier be.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n height of your glory \u2014 a Caesar, as it were:<\/em>
\n when you are become a man so widely famed:<\/em>
\n then specially be wary \u2014 at such time<\/em>
\n as you come out into the thoroughfares,<\/em>
\n a noted ruler with great following:<\/em>
\n if peradventure, from the multitude,<\/em>
\n some friendly person, an Artemidorus,<\/em>
\n bringing a paper, should press near to you<\/em>
\n and rap out sharp \u201cRead this without delay;<\/em>
\n herein are weighty matters touching you\u201d,<\/em>
\n fail not to tarry; fail not to postpone<\/em>
\n all talk or business; fail not to turn off<\/em>
\n the different hangers-on who bow and scrape,<\/em>
\n (you will attend to them in time); let even<\/em>
\n the Senate wait; \u2014 leave all, and learn at once<\/em>
\n the grave things written by Artemidorus.<\/em><\/p>\n