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Julius Caesar's Last Words Were "Et Tu, Brute?" What Does This Mean?

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  Julius's last words were: "You too, Brutus?" ---And Brutus,which was Caesar's friend, had murdered Caesar. Julius said those words because he was shocked or surprised that his best friend would do this to him. And why did they kill Caesar? One reason that the republican forces who had opposed Caesar for so long won but a hollow victory  was that he was already a legend for life. Despite his patrician background and authoritarian style, many plebes, populares, and soldiers saw him as their champion. Another reason the conspirators failed was that the republic they were defending existed more in their minds than in reality.
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It is recorded that these words ("You too, Brutus?") were indeed Caesar's last, and Shakespeare gives them in the original Latin, followed by "Then fall, Caesar!" as he dies. In Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar," which draws closely on contemporary accounts, a group of conspirators plot to assassinate him, led by Casca and Cassius. Caesar's friend Brutus is persuaded to join them despite his love for Caesar, because they convince him that Caesar's death will restore the Roman Republic. Caesar is naturally used to having enemies and doesn't trust Cassius or Casca anyway, but he never imagined that Brutus could be capable of such treachery. His last words express his shock and hurt at this betrayal, and a sense that he is now willing to die ("Then fall, Caesar.")
Later, when Brutus himself has been killed, Mark Antony, whose "Friends, Romans, countrymen" speech has stirred up the citizens to crush the conspiracy, mourns his death, saying, "This was the noblest Roman of them all." Throughout the play, Shakespeare represents Brutus as acting from the highest of motives.
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You too brutus
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It means you too brutus
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Julius Caesar said these words in Greek "Et tu brute?" which means "And you, Brutus?". He said these words because he couldnt believe that his good friend, Brutus betrayed him and assassinated him. Julius Caesar spoke these last words when he was dying.
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Everything is right but the fact that the words are Greek. It´s latin, the common language for the romans
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"Et Tu, Brute?" means "You too Brutus?" Brutus was the man who killed Caesar, he was Caesars closest friend, so Caesar was in shock that his best friend would kill him. So this is what his last words were.
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Et tu, Brute meant, You too, Brutus? Brutus was Caesars closest friend and he was very disappointed that he had betrayed him. And killed him
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Julius meant :You too Brutus? He said that because Brutus was coming  to kill him and he meant that he is against him too.

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