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Brutus, Marcus Junius

Roman politician, friend and protégé of Julius Caesar. (Early June, 85 BC – October 23, 42 BC)[1]

On March 15, 44 BC, Brutus led a group of Roman senators to stab Julius Caesar to death.[1] Caesar resisted the attack until he saw Brutus, his trusted friend, among the assassins. According to William Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar," he uttered the famous words, "Et tu, Brute (You, too, Brutus)? and accepted his fate.[2] The phrase has come to signify and acknowledge utmost betrayal from an unexpected and trusted source, such as a close friend.

Stampede: In May of 1877,[3] Bret Maverick was knocked out by Battling Kreuger, robbed by Tony Cadiz and Coral Stacey on the deck of the Dakota Queen and thrown overboard into the Missouri River. He was able to swim to a sand bar where he found his old acquaintance, Dandy Jim Buckley, who had been stripped of all his money and marooned there by the captain of the Far West for cheating with a holdout device on his riverboat. Always opportunistic, Buckley asked Bret if he had any money. Bret checked his pockets to discover he had been robbed of every penny, to which Buckley quipped "You, too, Brutus."[4]