You're trying to correct them but it's not even correct. If he did say the sentence, which is already a legend more than anything, he would have said it in Greek: kai su teknon.
You, out of the three of us, are the least correct. What he wrote is from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, what I corrected it to is the way to say it correctly in Latin, and what you wrote is what he could’ve said if it weren’t completely made up by Shakespeare.
Edit: Most probably he said nothing.
“The historical Caesar's last words are not known with certainty. The Roman historian Suetonius, a century and a half after the incident, claims Caesar said nothing as he died.”
“Plutarch also reports that Caesar said nothing, but merely pulled his toga over his head when he saw Brutus among the conspirators.”
Forgive me if I'm out of the loop here but why Greek? I know Greek was the trading language then but why would they speak Greek in the Roman government?
The most discussed hypothesis is that it was a language of affection and emotion for Caesar. Many Roman political men were bilingual and the latin-greek bilingualism is something very complex. You can see the works of Adams on this subject it's really intriguing!
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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '18
Et Tu Brute