But "Et tu brute?" means "You too, Brutus?", but in Latin rather than in Greek, so it sounds like Chinese Whispers anyway.

The point is that Caesar almost certainly didn't say it in Latin.

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0132%3Alife%3Djul.%3Achapter%3D82

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0061%3Alife%3Djul.%3Achapter%3D82%3Asection%3D3

Suetonius claims that Caesar didn't say anything as he died, but only groaned a bit. Then he mentions that other Roman authors claim that Caesar said κα? σ? τ?κνον, explicitly in Greek, not Latin, which is completely possible considering that Caesar was fluent in Greek. The first time I'm aware of where someone claims that Caesar's last words were in Latin was in Shakespeare's play. Since then some historians have assumed that Caesar's last words, if he had any at all, were actually Shakespeare's famous 'Et tu Brute?', since at first glance it seems more probable that in his final moments Caesar would speak in his native tongue. But as you can see it does not make any sense to believe so. I see no reason to believe an English poet over a Roman historian, so my guess is that Caesar didn't have any last words at all.

Pfft... I was going to say, Et tu Brute but Medivh's history lesson has me [censored]-up all sideways. And to think I actually studied Caesar's letters for a semester. That shows my interest...

What about future predictions? Are they allowed?

Eric Cartman 50 years from now: "Of course I want my damn cheesy poofs"!

I love that quote.

Sorry

Seen as you have such historical knowledge, are the last words of the Roman emperor Vespasian "woe is me I think I am becoming a god" true?

My historical knowledge isn't as extensive as it apparently seems to be, I had never heard of that one. If its true the guy had a great sense of humour ^_^.

Looked it up, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vespasian#Military_pursuits_and_death directed me to http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/66*.html. Don't know how good that translation is (my Latin is terrible and my Greek practically non-existent, sadly) but at least according to Dio he said something like that. I'd say its fairly reliable. Never read that chapter, but I've used Dio for several papers and his work seems to be pretty accurate for the most part.

My favorite last words are actually an epitaph on a grave...Alexander the Greats.

A hole in the ground shall suffice for a man to whom the world was not enough..

Hold my beer and watch this!
- Unknown

Shame he died young. Wonder how big the empire would have been if he lived longer.

Not his absolute last words, but here are some famous words by Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain, the year before he died: "I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.'"

He died of a heart attack one day after the comets closest approach to Earth!

While it wasn't his last words, "Death had to take him while he was sleeping, for if he was awake there would've been a fight."

No patriotic ones yet? C'mon. I'll say one,

"I regret that I have but one life to give for my country"

Nathan Hale

I really dont know many quotes, or last words.

Stonewall Jackson
"Let us pass over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees."

Well that was embaressing. Sorry for not reading the posts carefully guys! :sadvaultboy:

Its alright my darling. Something to cheer you up and make you laugh might be JFK's last words. Mrs Connolly said that Dallas loved him, he said "thats obvious" and was shot.

^ That's great, I'll remember that one

Also, though probably fictional and not really the very last words of either of them, two of the Spartans at Thermopylae had some awesome final words that you all no doubt know. I love Leonidas I's response to the Persian demand to lay down his weapons: Μολ?ν λαβ?, or as Gerard Butler put it, come and get them! Almost as awesome is Dienekes, about the Persian arrows that would blot out the sun: Good, then we'll fight in the shade.

And 300 made both quotes even more awesome than they already were. Laconic humour indeed.

Robert Louis Stevenson - "Does my face look strange?"

"Merde!" -Last word of the last Frenchman killed in the battle of Waterloo

Can't think of any, but I know what mine would be:

"Pen....Paper....I must show where the treasure......... ..."

James D. French - Before being electrocuted by electric chair, "How's this for tomorrows headline? 'French Fries'"

Heres a few in this http://www.cracked.com/article_16354_the-11-most-badass-last-words-ever-uttered.html.


Some include quotes already posted.

My favorite in it: Tom Ketchum(Ash Ketchum no relation): "I'll be in hell before you start breakfast! Let her rip!"


Also remember hearing this on a zombie parody video somewhere:

2 men are about to kill themselves because they have been bitten by zombies:

"I hope theres room in hell boss!"

"Hey, watch this!" - Too many people to count

Some of my Favourites


I have not told half of what I saw. - Marco Polo, Venetian traveller and writer

Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. - Francisco ("Pancho") Villa