Julius Ceasar






Julius Caesar was one of the greatest political leaders ever. After his brilliant conquest of Gaul, his loyal army was willing to follow him on campaigns in Egypt, Pontus, Africa, and Spain, which made him master of the Roman world. Granting himself dictatorial powers as the first de facto emperor, he passed a flood of shrewd, sane measures, which improved life for many at home and abroad.



The story:

Caesar attended the last meeting of the Senate before his departure, held at its temporary quarters in the portico of the theater built by Pompey the Great (the Curia, located in the Forum and the regular meeting house of the Senate, had been badly burned, and was being rebuilt).

The sixty conspirators, led by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Brutus Albinus, and Gaius Trebonius, came to the meeting with daggers concealed in their togas and struck Caesar at least 23 times as he stood at the base of Pompey's statue.

Legend has it that Caesar said in Greek to Brutus, “You, too, my child?” After his death, all the senators fled, and three slaves carried his body home to Calpurnia several hours later. (http://www.vroma.org/~bmcmanus/caesar.html)



According to history, when Julius Ceasar attends his last senate and during the day, he was stab by his own friends. There were lot of reason why he been stabbed. Maybe his friends are jealous with his power, wealth then he is also a powerful dictatorial on that century.

The last word by Julius Ceasar has been using worldwide to describe backstabbing and betrayed by own friends or anyone that close.



According to Wikipedia, "Et tu, Brute?" 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?".

The quotation is widely used in Western culture to signify the utmost betrayal.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Et_tu_brute)

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