Julius Caesar was warned by a soothsayer to “beware the ides of March.” The ides of March is today, the 15th of March. Good old Julius disregarded the warning and on this fateful day in 44 BCE he fell dead, assassinated by his friend Marcus Brutus. As Shakespeare wrote, it was the most unkindest cut of all. “Oh what a fall there was my countrymen. Then you and I and all of us fell down, whilst bloody treason flourished over us” as Mark Antony later orated. (I am quoting …