The traditional omen, however, is the fortune teller who warns Caesar to ‘beware the Ides of March’ in Shakespeare’s play. Shakespeare lifted this from Plutarch and it also appears in Appian, Suetonius and Dio. He is called Spurinna. In most, Caesar sees him again on the way to the Senate House and mocks him, saying that the Ides had come and he was fine, to which Spurinna replied that the Ides had come but not yet gone.
