Ego ictus

Actor playing Brutus stabs himself

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Caesar lay dead and Brutus was talking to his co-conspirators about swords and blood when he paused and excused himself, saying "I seem to have stabbed myself."

Aspen actor/director Kent Hudson Reed accidently cut his leg open with the knife he was using in an outdoor performance of "Scenes from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar" on Wednesday.

He tried to carry on, "but my boot was filling up with blood and I was flubbing my lines, wondering if I was going to pass out, wondering if the audience could see the blood."


Et tu, Brute?

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"Et tu, Brute?" ("You too, Brutus?" or "Even you, Brutus?") is a Latin phrase often used poetically to represent the last words of Julius Caesar. The quotation is widely used in Western culture as an epitome of betrayal.


Comment: Brutus finally got his due! And by his own hand! "Ego ictus" is my feeble attempt (it was a long time ago (think High School) that I studied Latin) at "I stabbed myself"! Image from VinylZart