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[-] ClipperDefiance@piefed.social 32 points 2 months ago

It's a pun. The painting depicts the assassination of Julius Caesar. One of the most well known of the assassins was Caesar's friend Brutus. In William Shakespeare's play based on the event Caesar's last words are "Et tu, Brute? Then fall, Caesar." His actual last words are probably lost to time, but many people associate the line from the play with the event. As for the pizza thing, it's probably just a setup for the joke.

[-] snooggums@piefed.world 17 points 2 months ago

Ceasar's last words were

spoiler"Ow! Stop stabbing me you assholes!"

[-] fartographer@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Oooh, ow, ouch, owwie, ouch! Guys, for real, stop. I'm getting woozy, man!

[-] hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

lost to time? i thought christopher lee was there.

[-] TheYojimbo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I thought Brutus was his son and his last words supposed to be "tu quoque fili"

[-] teft@piefed.social 8 points 2 months ago

Marcus Junius Brutus's father was Marcus Junius Brutus, pleb tribune and founder of Capua (yes that Capua of Spartacus fame). He was later adopted by Quintus Servilius Caepio.

The only known biological son of Gaius Julius Caesar was his and Cleopatra's son Caesarion. His only adoptive son was Octavian, later known as Augustus.

[-] TheYojimbo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yes that's what I got from internet but it's said he considered him his adoptive son. Apparently that's a french thing, the "tu quoque mi fili" wikipedia page doesn't even exist in english

[-] PugJesus@piefed.social 4 points 2 months ago

I thought Brutus was his son and his last words supposed to be “tu quoque fili”

Caesar's last words, according to some accounts, were "Kai su, teknon?" - "You as well, my son?"

It's generally accepted that "my son" is meant figuratively here, as a younger man whom he considered affectionately, but some argue that Brutus was literally Caesar's illegitimate son from an affair with his mother.

This is generally considered a fringe theory, as it would require Caesar to have been in his mid-teens when he seduced Brutus's mother, but is not completely impossible.

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