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The Judgment of History “Salahat ng sugat ang pinakamahapdi ay yung saksak galing sa punyal ng isang matalik na kaibigan.” Translation:”Of all wounds inflicted, the most painful is the one coming from the dagger of a trusted friend.”… Old Filipino proverb By Jose Sison Luzadas Delray Beach, Fl Source from INTERNET Helplessly fending off the conspirators with their knives coming from all directions, Gaius Julius Caesar stood to his ground, a true fashion of a brave veteran Roman soldier. Of the thirty-two stabbings Julius Caesar received he groaned but once and that was the first initial blow”, so says Suetonius, Roman historian and author of “Lives of the Twelve Caesars” Relying chiefly from witnesses watching on that violent Friday, March 15, 44 BC Ides of March, Suetonius noted that the most climactic was when Caesar was surprised and shocked to see a face revealed turned out to be his mistress’ son whom he enjoyed conversing with him in Greek language about Hellenic culture. The rumor long circulated was that Brutus was his son. If so, the moment of truth came when Brutus, the assailant-assassin finally took his turn to finish the job he planned, sworn and participated. To kill Caesar before he dissolves the Roman Republic and install himself emperor to would only preempt the death of the Republic that his brave ancestor, Lucius Jucinius Brutus founded after expelling the Etruscan king and established the Republic with two consuls instead of a king. In the crowd who witnessed the killing, bystanders heard Caesar moaned, “Ka isu teknon”, it sounds more of Ilocano than Greek to mean, “You too my son?” Besides Suetonius, Plutarch who wrote “Parallel Lives of Great Greeks and Romans” confirmed that it was Greek but the phrase attributed to Caesar became famous and often quoted thanks to Shakespeare who created the words “Etu Brutus” to add drama and tragedy. Yes, it was William Shakespeare whose play, “Julius Caesar” brainwashed us into associating the Latin phrase ‘ETU, BRUTUS’ on the brutal killing of Caesar. Without Shakespeare’s “Etu Brutus” we will be deprived using the word BRUTE or BRUTAL or BRUTALITY to describe violent wicked or cruel and merciless killing! But to attribute these words to Brutus, the Roman citizen and defender of the Roman Republic will be unfair as he vehemently asserted his genuine patriotism when he proudly declared, “it was not that I love Caesar less but I love Rome more!” While Julius Caesar is the greatest Roman, it was Shakespeare who singled out Brutus ”as the Noblest Roman of them all!” Comments: write to: [email protected]