The significance of the Ides of March Caesar is that it is the day he was assassinated by a group of conspirators, including Brutus and Cassius. Despite many warnings and improbable-soothsayer, warning, some fearsome thundering, his wife of murdering his dreams, and so Caesar ventures back to the IDES in response to its loss.
Shakespeare borrowed this scene, as well as other details of the death of Caesar, from Plutarch's Life of Julius Caesar. English translation was readily available, but his exact phrasing was not enough of Shakespeare's dramatic purposes. Where is clairvoyant said: "Beware the Ides of March" more prosaic original says only that the soothsayer warns Caesar to "beware the Ides of March to today."
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