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I thought that was from about 2000 years ago?
Shakespear wrote it about 500 years ago, about an event 2,000 years ago, and Nan failed to identify it 1 year ago.
Shakespeare wrote in Latin???
That line he did.
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Death of Caesar by Vincenzo Camuccini"Et tu, Brute?" (pronounced /ɛt ˈtuː ˈbruːtɛ/) is a Latin phrase often used poetically to represent the last words of Roman dictator Julius Caesar to his friend Marcus Brutus at the moment of his murder by stabbing. It can be variously translated as "Even you, Brutus?","And you, Brutus?", "You too, Brutus?", "Thou too, Brutus?" or "And thou, Brutus?"[1]. Immortalized by Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (1599), the quotation is widely used in Western culture to signify the utmost betrayal.
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On March 15 (the Ides of March), 44 BC, Caesar was attacked by a group of senators, including Marcus Junius Brutus, Caesar's close friend. Caesar initially resisted his attackers, but when he saw Brutus, he supposedly spoke those words and resigned himself to his fate.
Caesar's last words are not known with certainty and are a contested subject among scholars and historians alike. The version best known in the English-speaking world is the Latin phrase Et tu, Brute?, which derives from William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar (1599), where it actually forms the first half of a macaronic line: "Et tu, Brute? Then fall, Caesar!"[2] Shakespeare in turn was making use of a phrase already in common use in his time: it appears, for example, in Richard Eedes's Latin play Caesar Interfectus of 1582 and The True Tragedie of Richarde Duke of Yorke &c of 1595, a source work for Henry VI, Part 3.[3]
The phrase evidently follows in the tradition of the Roman historian Suetonius, who reports that others have claimed Caesar's last words were the Greek phrase "καὶ σὺ τέκνον;"[4] (transliterated as "Kai su, teknon?": "You too, my child?" in English or "Tu quoque, Brute, fili mi" in Latin). Caesar is known to have spoken excellent Greek and there would be nothing strange in this. Suetonius himself claims Caesar said nothing as he died.[5] Plutarch also reports that Caesar said nothing and merely pulled his toga over his head when he saw Brutus among the conspirators.[6]
aw damn.... sowy pick3 
billfred
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Exactly!!
billfred
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rude
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I'd get you a handbag...or something bicycle related. PRobably the handbag because it would be more fun for me to shop for it
as far as bill is concerned....two tickets to paris together...but I'd leave him half the time so he could be alone. lol
Sweet - I am in.
See Mel - if you were not rude you could be going to Paris with us. Now you are just riding your bike with a new bag.
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