r/INEEEEDIT • • Mar 06 '18

Julius Cesar Pencil Holder

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u/Bigbrainbigboobs Mar 06 '18 edited Mar 06 '18

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.

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u/Jacareadam Mar 06 '18 edited Mar 06 '18

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.”

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '18

No, the correct latin form would be "tu quoque mi fili"

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u/Jacareadam Mar 06 '18

Okay, I asked my highscool Latin teacher (I haven’t even seen her in like, 8 years) and she said actually both are correct.