When to Say : You Too Brutus
History and explanation of a common phrase
In 44 BC, Julius Caesar was murdered by a group of senators. They were led by Marcus Brutus, who had previously been a trusted friend and protégé of Caesar.
“Et tu, Brute?” are Julius Caesar's last words. They are Latin for “You too, Brutus?” . This conveys surprise and shock that Brutus, Caesar's friend, would kill him. It is sometimes used to express shock at betrayal by a friend or close associate.
He was stabbed with three and twenty wounds, uttering a groan only, but no cry, at the first wound; although some authors relate, that when Marcus Brutus fell upon him, he exclaimed, “What! art thou, too, one of them! Thou, my son!”
Marcus Brutus, Roman general, one of the conspirators in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Though he is Caesar’s friend and a man of honour, Brutus joins in the conspiracy against Caesar’s life, convincing himself that Caesar’s death is for the greater good of Rome
Death of Brutus.
Impaling himself on the sword, Brutus declares Caesar should consider himself avenged: “Caesar, now be still. / I killed not thee with half so good a will”
