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Did you know? "Et tu, Brute?" — "you too, Brutus?" — are Julius Caesar's dying words according to Shakespeare's 1599 play. According to Roman historian Suetonius, Caesar may have said instead in Greek: "kai sy, teknon?" — "you too, child?" Or, most likely, nothing — just dying from 23 stab wounds.

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"Et tu, Brute?" — "you too, Brutus?" — are Julius Caesar's dying words according to Shakespeare's 1599 play. According to Roman historian Suetonius, Caesar may have said instead in Greek: "kai sy, teknon?" — "you too, child?" Or, most likely, nothing — just dying from 23 stab wounds.

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