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2026Q1(i)Julius Caesar (Drama)
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What were Julius Caesar's dying words?

Topic: Act 3 Scene 1 — the assassination

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(b) 'Et tu brute? Then fall Caesar!'.

Explanation

Caesar dies not from the wounds but from the shock of seeing Brutus among the assassins — "And you too, Brutus?" — and then yields, "Then fall, Caesar!" Keep the distractors straight: "the most unkindest cut of all" is Antony’s phrase in the funeral speech about Brutus’s wound, and the Roman’s part belongs to the suicides at Philippi. The line matters because it shows the betrayal, not the daggers, is what kills him.

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'Et tu brute? Then fall Caesar!'.

Example

'Et tu, Brute? Then fall, Caesar!'

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