"'And thou too, my son.' W and S [James W. McIntyre, ed., The Writings and Speeches of Daniel Webster, 18 volumes, New York, 1903] 15: 11-12. Chauncey A. Goodrich attributed DW's use of this phrase to Lord Belhaven's 1706 speech, 'Belhaven's Vision,' in which John Hamilton, the 2d Baron Belhaven, bemoaned the legislative union of Scotland and England in 1707: 'But above all, my Lord, I think I see our ancient mother, Caledonia, like Caesar, sitting in the midst of our senate, rufully looking round about her, covering herself with her royal garment, attending the fatal blow, and breathing out her last with a et tu quoque mi fili.' Daniel Defoe, The History of the Union Between England and Scotland (London, 1786), p. 318. A more likely source may have been Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars, where Suetonius relates: 'Twenty-three dagger thrusts went home as he stood there. Caesar did not utter a sound after Casca's blow had drawn a groan from him; though some say that when he saw Marcus Brutus about to deliver the second blow, he reproached him in Greek with: 'You, too, my son'' (see Robert Graves, trans., The Twelve Caesars [Harmondsworth, Eng., 1957], p. 46.). For a discussion of Shakespeare's rendition: ,--'Et tu, Brute!' see John Dover Wilson, 'Introduction,' Julius Caesar (Cambridge, Eng., 1956), p. xxvi and p. 151, n.77."
From:
Author: Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852.
Title: The papers of Daniel Webster. Charles M. Wiltse, editor;
Harold D. Moser, associate editor.
Imprint: Hanover, N.H., Published for Dartmouth College by the
University Press of New England [c1974-
Notes: Series Two. Legal Papers
Volume 3. The Federal Practice
Part 1
(Andrew J. King, Editor)
Page: [154]
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