Show Calends Ides Ide and Nones None Day Days in Roman Calendar Beware of the ides of March said the soothsayer to Julius Caesar but the dicta dictator tor refused to heed the warning and s so on March 15 he was assassinated The March is the name by which March 15 is known in the theRoman theRoman theRoman Roman calendar The calends the Ides and the nones are hones are the only three names by which days in the ancient Roman calendar were known notes a writer In the Cleveland Cleve land Plain Dealer The calends were always the first of the month The ides were the ninth day after the nones both days included and fell on the fifteenth of March May July and October and on the thirteenth thirteenth thirteenth thir thir- of all an other months The nones were the ninth day before the ides again counting both days and fell on the seventh of March May July and October and on the fifth of all other months All other days were reckoned backward from the ides nones and calends The Romans never reckoned forward forward forward for for- ward from these dates For instance instance in tn stance the ides of June were June 13 and June 8 was referred to as a. the sixth of the ides of June not as 81 the fourth of the nones of June Both dates were always alway Included in the reckoning January 13 was the ides of January January 12 the day before the ides of January But January 14 was not called the day after the ides of January but the nineteenth of the calends of February This system of naming the days accounts for the fact that thata a certain number of days preceding the ides nones and calends are sometimes loosely called the ides nones and calends respectively |