Caesar almost certainly never said 'Et tu, Brute?': Shakespeare gave him the line.

44 BC · 1599 · apart: 1643 years

Suetonius says the dictator died in silence, though some reported his last words in Greek: 'You too, child?'

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• Assassination of Julius Caesar44 BC · Rome. On the Ides of March, senators led by Brutus and Cassius stabbed the dictator Julius Caesar to death at a Senate meeting in the Curia of Pompey. Instead of saving the Republic, the murder unleashed new civil wars that brought Octavian to power.

1st century BC · 16th century

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