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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
ides
    n 1: in the Roman calendar: the 15th of March or May or July or
         October or the 13th of any other month

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Ides \Ides\ ([imac]dz), n. pl. [L. idus: cf. F. ides.] (Anc.
   Rom. Calendar)
   The fifteenth day of March, May, July, and October, and the
   thirteenth day of the other months.
   [1913 Webster]

         The ides of March remember.              --Shak.
   [1913 Webster]

   Note: Eight days in each month often pass by this name, but
         only one strictly receives it, the others being called
         respectively the day before the ides, and so on,
         backward, to the eighth from the ides.
         [1913 Webster]

3. V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016)
IDES
       International Demonstration and Education System (R/3, SAP)
       

4. V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016)
IDES
       Intrusion Detection Expert System (IBM, IDS, XPS)
       

5. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
IDES, NONES and CALENDS, civil law. This mode of computing time, formerly in 
use among the Romans, is yet used in several chanceries in, Europe, 
particularly in that of the pope. Many ancient instruments bear these dates; 
it is therefore proper to notice them here. These three words designate all 
the days of the month. 
     2. The calends were the first day of every month, and were known by 
adding the names of the months; as calendis januarii, calendis februarii, 
for the first days of the months of January and February. They designated 
the following days by those before the nones. The fifth day of each month, 
except those of March, May, July, and October; in those four months the 
nones indicated the seventh day; nonis martii, was therefore the seventh day 
of March, and so of the rest. In those months in which the nones indicated 
the fifth day, the second was called quarto nonas or 4 nonas, that is to 
say, quarto die ante nonas, the fourth day before the nones. The words die 
and ante, being understood, were usually suppressed. The third day of each 
of those eight months was called tertio, or 3 nonas. The fourth, was pridie 
or 2 nonas; and the fifth was nonas. In the months of March, May, July and 
October, the second day of the months was called sexto or 6 nonas; the 
third, quinto, or 5 nonas; the fourth, quarto, or 4 nonas; the fifth, 
tertio, or 3 nonas; the sixth, pridie, usually abridged prid. or pr. or 2 
nonas; and the seventh, nones. The word nonae is so applied, it is said, 
because it indicates the ninth day before the ides of each month. 
     3. In the months of March, May, July and October, the fifteenth day of 
the months was the Ides. These are the four mouths, as above mentioned, in 
which the nones were on the seventh day. In the other eight months of the 
year the nones were the fifth of the month, and the ides the thirteenth in 
each of them the ides indicated the ninth day after the nones. The seven 
days between the nones and the ides, which we count 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 
and 14, in March, May, July and October, the Romans counted octave, or 8 
idus; septimo, or 7 idus; sexto, or 6 idus; quinto, or 5 idus; quarto, or 4 
idus; tertio, or 3 idus; pridie, or 2, idus; the word ante being understood 
as mentioned above. As to the other eight mouths of the year, in which the 
nones indicated the fifth day of the month, instead of our 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 
11, and 12, the Romans counted octavo idus, septimo, &c. The word is said to 
be derived from the Tuscan, iduare, in Latin dividere, to divide, because 
the day of ides divided the month into equal parts. The days from the ides 
to the end of the month were computed as follows; for example, the 
fourteenth day of January, which was the next day after the ides, was called 
decimo nono, or 19 kalendas, or ante kalendas febrarii; the fifteenth, 
decimo octavo, or 18 kalendas februarii, and so of the rest. Counting in a, 
retrograde manner to pridie or 2 kalendas februarii, which was the thirty-
first day of January. 
     4. As in some months the ides indicate the thirteenth, and in some the 
fifteenth of the month, and as the months have not an equal number of days, 
it follows that the decimo nono or 19 kalendas did not always happen to be 
the next day after the Ides, this was the case only in the months of 
January, August and December. Decimo sexto or the 16th in February; decimo 
septimo or 17, March, May, July and October; decimo octave or 18, in April, 
June, September, and November. Merlin, Repertoire de Jurisprudence, mots 
Ides, Nones et Calendes. 

          A Table of the Calends of the Nones and the Ides.

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 Jan., Aug., Dec.  � March, May,     � April, June,    � February 28,
     31 days.      � July, Oct.,     � Sept., Nov.,    � bissextile,
                   �  31 days.       �   30 days.      �   29 days.
 �������������������������������������������������������������������������
  1 � Calendis.    � Calendis        � Calendis        � Calendis
  2 � 4 Nonas.     � 6 Nonas         � 4 Nonas         � 4 Nonas
  3 � 3 Nonas.     � 5 Nonas         � 3 Nonas         � 3 Nonas
  4 � Prid. Non.   � 4 Nonas         � Prid. Non.      � Prid. Non.
  5 � Nonis        � 3 Nonas         � Nonis           � Nonis
  6 � 8 Idus       � Prid. Non.      � 8 Idus          � 8 Idus
  7 � 7 Idus       � Nonis           � 7 Idus          � 7 Idus
  8 � 6 Idus       � 8 Idus          � 6 Idus          � 6 Idus
  9 � 5 Idus       � 7 Idus          � 5 Idus          � 5 Idus
 10 � 4 Idus       � 6 Idus          � 4 Idus          � 4 Idus
 11 � 3 Idus       � 5 Idus          � 3 Idus          � 3 Idus
 12 � Prid. Idus   � 4 Idus          � Prid. Idus      � Prid. Idus
 18 � Idibus       � 3 Idus          � Idibus          � Idibus
 14 � 19 Cal.      � Prid. Idus      � 18 Cal.         � 16 Cal.
 15 � 18 Cal.      � Idibus          � 17 Cal.         � 15 Cal.
 16 � 17 Cal.      � 17 Cal.         � 16 Cal.         � 14 Cal.
 17 � 16 Cal.      � 16 Cal.         � 15 Cal.         � 3 Cal.
 18 � 15 Cal.      � 15 Cal.         � 14 Cal.         � 12 Cal.
 19 � 14 Cal.      � 14 Cal.         � 13 Cal.         � 11 Cal.
 20 � 18 Cal.      � 13 Cal.         � 12 Cal.         � 10 Cal.
 21 � 12 Cal.      � 12 Cal.         � 11 Cal.         � 9 Cal.
 22 � 11 Cal.      � 11 Cal.         � 10 Cal.         � 8 Cal.
 23 � 10 Cal.      � 10 Cal.         � 9 Cal.          � 7 Cal.
 24 � 9 Cal.       � 9 Cal.          � 8 Cal.          � 6 Cal.*
 25 � 8 Cal.       � 9 Cal.          � 7 Cal.          � 5 Cal.
 26 � 7 Cal.       � 7 Cal.          � 6 Cal.          � 4 Cal.
 27 � 6 Cal.       � 6 Cal.          � 5 Cal.          � 3 Cal.
 28 � 5 Cal.       � 5 Cal.          � 4 Cal.          � Prid. Cal.
 29 � 4 Cal.       � 4 Cal.          � 3 Cal.          �
 30 � 3 Cal.       � 3 Cal.          � Prid. Cal.      �
 31 � Prid. Cal.   � Prid. Cal.      �                 � 
* If February is bissextile, Sexto Calencas (6 Cal.) it is counted twice, 
viz: for the 24th and 25th of the month, hence the word bissextile. 



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