| 释义 |
ides, n. pl.|aɪdz|
Rarely in sing. ide.
[a. F. Ides (12th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. L. Īdūs, n. pl.]
In the ancient Roman calendar, the eighth day after the nones, i.e. the 15th of March, May, July, October, and the 13th of the other months.
The days after the nones were reckoned forward to the ides; hence such expressions as ‘the sixth of the ides’ (or ‘the sixth ides’, or ‘the sixth ide’) ‘of June’, loosely rendering L. ante diem sextum Idus Junias = June 8. See note s.v. calends 1.
c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 341 Idus þat is of May left I to write þis ryme, B letter & Friday bi ix þat ȝere ȝede prime. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 215 b/2 It was the iii ydees of Juyll. 1502Arnolde Chron. 65 b/2 Somer..beginnithe the vij. Ide of may and lastith vnto the vij. Ide of august. 1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 40 Dated the .7. of the Ides of June. 1601Shakes. Jul. C. i. ii. 17 Cæsar..Beware the Ides of March. 1641Howell Vote in New Vol. Lett. (1650) I ij, The soft gliding Nones and every Ide. 1776A. Adams in J. Adams' Fam. Lett. (1876) 160 The 19th of April, ever memorable for America as the Ides of March to Rome and to Cæsar. 1834Lytton Pompeii i. iii, ‘It stands fixed for the ninth ide of August’, answered Pansa. 1847Emerson Woodnotes i. 45 Foreteller of the vernal ides, Wise harbinger of spheres and tides. |