Et Tu Brute...

Today was the 2050th anniversary of the assassination of Julius Caesar. That would be “Caesar” as in a root word important enough from which European leader words were derived from it like Kaiser and Czar.
When I was in high school we learned about Julius Caesar in three places:
1. World History where the Roman Empire was given an overview.
2. Latin Class (the language the Romans spoke) where Caesar’s letters from Gaul were introduced.
3. 10th grade English where every student in Pennsylvania was exposed to Shakespeare’s play “Julius Caesar" and required to commit to memory a given number of lines from the play that reciting any one Marc Antony speech was not quite enough.
On March 15, 44 BC Julius Caesar, the Ruler of the Roman Empire was murdered in Pompey's theater as the Roman Senate convened a meeting there by a group of conspirators led by Cassius and Brutus. When the murder of the populist Caesar was not well received by the public both Cassius and Brutus fled to Greece where they ultimately committed suicide 2 years later when on the losing side of the Battle of Phillipi.
A key element in the assassination was the betrayal of Brutus toward Caesar who had saved the former’s butt on more than one occasion. For many years historians thought
Brutus was Caesar’s son because he was the son of the Emperor’s longtime mistress Servilia Caepionis and the Latin translation of Caesar’s final words were “and you too, Son”. However, eventually someone took the time to do some calculations and figured out that Caesar was an unheard of 15 year old when Brutus was born. Clearly though Brutus enjoyed a favored status with Caesar.
I still remember the two Marc Antony speeches I learned 44 years ago..