Kind of cool that Archduke Eduard of Austria—Hungarian ambassador to the Holy See and the Sovereign Order of Malta—took to Twitter today, the Ides of March, to show us the very spot where Julius Caesar was assassinated 1,978 years ago.
On the #IdesofMarch, let me show you the spot where Caesar was killed. The remains of the Curia of Pompey (where the Senate met that day 44 BC) are under modern Largo Argentina. More or less at the foot of the tall pine tree.
(PS spot the cat) pic.twitter.com/x3II3sUda2— Eduard Habsburg (@EduardHabsburg) March 15, 2022
According to National Geographic, “a group of as many as 60 conspirators…stabbed Caesar a reported 23 times, killing the Roman leader.” But it turns out that’s not the only reason the soothsayer warned Caesar to “Beware the Ides of March.”
