15th of March

I am feeling normal today, I am very happy to report.

Today is the famous Ides of March, the day that Julius Caesar was stabbed by close associates who feared for the future of their country if he retained political power.  As I have written, my Latin class read Caesar's "Gallic Wars".  What I remember from that is that the writings could be honestly titled "Macho Misbehavior with Other Nations".  Have an experienced troop of soldiers show up at a leader's house and announce that the leader's children would accompany the soldiers back to Rome where they would be cared for and returned IF the people of that group had delivered the specified "tribute" of this many bushels of wheat and maybe a few other things at the specified times.