Posted by Jonathan on March 17, 2002, at 21:38:25
In reply to A Quiz, posted by Lou Pilder on March 17, 2002, at 20:08:00
Actually, Shakespeare put the words "Et tu Brute? Then die, Caesar" into Caesar's mouth in his eponymous play: I don't know of any evidence from contemporary sources (e.g. Plutarch's "Lives") that Caesar actually said these words when his `friend' Brutus turned out to be one of the conspirators who stabbed him to death on the Ides (15th) of March, 44 B.C. It sounds medically implausible to me that he could have said anything more coherent than "Urrrggh!" (or the Latin equivalent) in response to this, the last of 23 stab wounds.
Nice question for the recent 2045th anniversary of that fateful day (there was no Year Zero between 1 B.C. and 1 A.D.)
Thanks, Lou.
Jonathan :)
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