Et tu, Brute?
Caesar was stabbed 23 times by group of 60 senators (including his protégé Brutus) assassinating him. Only one of the wound would be fatal, he actually died of blood loss, suggesting those senators were not exactly professionals.
Any Roman who wanted a political career would see that leading troops in battle was on his resume. The senators knew what they were doing – they intended that no _one_ of them would be the killer.
As for Brutus, he was following an 800 year old family tradition, which gave the family it’s cognomen. The original Brutus was the only person the last Tarquin king of Rome fully trusted – because the king saw him as too stupid to plot against the king, and nicknamed him Brutus, meaning “stupid like an animal”. Then Tarquin raped Brutus’s wife, and Brutus found he was in a perfect position to plot the king’s overthrow.
About 800 years later, the current holder of that name saw that Caesar was making himself a king. So he did something about it. Not his fault that too many of his fellow Romans no longer had the will to keep their freedom…
Sorry, I don’t quite get the gag…
Et tu, Brute?
Caesar was stabbed 23 times by group of 60 senators (including his protégé Brutus) assassinating him. Only one of the wound would be fatal, he actually died of blood loss, suggesting those senators were not exactly professionals.
Any Roman who wanted a political career would see that leading troops in battle was on his resume. The senators knew what they were doing – they intended that no _one_ of them would be the killer.
As for Brutus, he was following an 800 year old family tradition, which gave the family it’s cognomen. The original Brutus was the only person the last Tarquin king of Rome fully trusted – because the king saw him as too stupid to plot against the king, and nicknamed him Brutus, meaning “stupid like an animal”. Then Tarquin raped Brutus’s wife, and Brutus found he was in a perfect position to plot the king’s overthrow.
About 800 years later, the current holder of that name saw that Caesar was making himself a king. So he did something about it. Not his fault that too many of his fellow Romans no longer had the will to keep their freedom…