Post by Kerisblade on Sept 11, 2007 9:25:47 GMT -5
The last words of Caesar
"Et tu, Brute", meaning literally “And you, Brutus?” were supposedly the last words of Julius Caesar. In 44 BC, Caesar was murdered by a group of senators led by Marcus Brutus, his close friend. The phrase comes to us via Shakespeare's play “Julius Caesar” which, like many of Shakespeare’s history plays, twists historical records for dramatic effect. The phrase has since came into popular use to express betrayal by a trusted friend.
However there's no real evidence to show Julius Caesar spoke those words. According to Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (ca. 69/75 - after 130), a prominent Roman historian and biographer, Caesar actually spoke in Greek and his last words were the Greek phrase "Kai su, teknon?" or “You too, my child?" in English.
Plutarch (46 AD-127 AD), Greek historian, biographer, essayist has a different account. He reported that Caesar said not a word, only pulling his toga over his head when he saw Brutus among the conspirators.
If Plutarch was right, why Caesar did this remains a mystery. Could it be that noble Caesar wanted to show that kariolis male w-h-o-r-e Brutus that he got two big arhidia compared with Brutus’ mikros ones, and that Brutus was welcome to fae ta his arhidias?
And that the rest of Brutus’ mouno pano wankers, as the Greek describe such men, could blow Caesar’s poutsos and skipse ke glipse his ass? I would like to think this is how Caesar went down - with courage and valour as befitting the conqueror of the known world of his time. Surely the last immortal words of Great Caesar to Brutus would not be that ansy-pansy “et tu Brute” but “Ai pidik yourself!”