"A certain seer warned Caesar to be on his guard against a great peril on the day of the month of March which the Romans call the Ides; 6 and when the day had come and Caesar was on his way to the senate-house, he greeted the seer with a jest and said: 'Well, the Ides of March are come, ' and the seer said to him softly: 'Ay, they are come, but they are not gone." Plutarch, Parallel Lives What if Gaius Julus Caesar had heeded those fateful words and...