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Brutus is a Roman
Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC....
 cognomen used by several politicians of the Junii
Junius (gens)

Junius is the nomen of the gens Junia, an important and very ancient family of ancient Rome, with both Patrician and Plebeian branches. Many notable members of the family bore the cognomen Brutus....
 family, especially in the Roman Republic
Roman Republic

The Roman Republic was the phase of the Ancient Rome characterized by a republican form of government; a period which began with the overthrow of the Roman Roman Kingdom, c....
. The plural of Brutus is Bruti, and the vocative
Vocative case

The vocative case is the declension used for a noun identifying the person being addressed and/or occasionally the determiners of that noun. A vocative expression is an expression of direct address, wherein the identity of the party being spoken to is set forth expressly within a sentence....
 form is Brute, as immortalized in the quotation "Et tu, Brute?
Et tu, Brute?

"Et tu, Brute?" is a Latin phrase often used poetically to represent the last words of Roman Empire Roman dictator Julius Caesar. Immortalised by Shakespeare's Julius Caesar , the quotation is widely used in Western culture as an epitome of betrayal....
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ble ancient Romans with this cognomen include:




House of Brutii is a playable faction in the video game Rome:Total War.






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Brutus is a Roman
Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC....
 cognomen used by several politicians of the Junii
Junius (gens)

Junius is the nomen of the gens Junia, an important and very ancient family of ancient Rome, with both Patrician and Plebeian branches. Many notable members of the family bore the cognomen Brutus....
 family, especially in the Roman Republic
Roman Republic

The Roman Republic was the phase of the Ancient Rome characterized by a republican form of government; a period which began with the overthrow of the Roman Roman Kingdom, c....
. The plural of Brutus is Bruti, and the vocative
Vocative case

The vocative case is the declension used for a noun identifying the person being addressed and/or occasionally the determiners of that noun. A vocative expression is an expression of direct address, wherein the identity of the party being spoken to is set forth expressly within a sentence....
 form is Brute, as immortalized in the quotation "Et tu, Brute?
Et tu, Brute?

"Et tu, Brute?" is a Latin phrase often used poetically to represent the last words of Roman Empire Roman dictator Julius Caesar. Immortalised by Shakespeare's Julius Caesar , the quotation is widely used in Western culture as an epitome of betrayal....
".

Ancient Romans with this name

Notable ancient Romans with this cognomen include:

  • Marcus Junius Brutus
    Marcus Junius Brutus

    File:Portrait Brutus Massimo.jpgMarcus Junius Brutus or Quintus Servilius Caepio Brutus, often referred to simply as Brutus, was a Roman Senate of the late Roman Republic....
    — Caesar's most famous assassin.
  • Marcus Junius Brutus the Elder
    Marcus Junius Brutus the Elder

    Marcus Junius Brutus known by modern historians as Marcus Junius Brutus the Elder, was a Ancient Rome man who lived in the 1st century BC....
    , the father of the aforementioned assassin.
  • Lucius Junius Brutus
    Lucius Junius Brutus

    Lucius Junius Brutus was the founder of the Roman Republic and traditionally one of the first Consuls in 509 BC. He was the primary ancestor of the Junius family in Ancient Rome, including Marcus Junius Brutus....
     — traditional founder of the Republic
    Roman Republic

    The Roman Republic was the phase of the Ancient Rome characterized by a republican form of government; a period which began with the overthrow of the Roman Roman Kingdom, c....
    , whose sons were:
    • Tiberius Junius Brutus
      Tiberius Junius Brutus

      Tiberius Junius Brutus was, according to Livy, the younger son of the Founder of the Roman Republic consul Lucius Junius Brutus Tiberius and his elder brother Titus Junius Brutus were monarchists and rebelled against the new republic together with Lucius Tarquinius Superbus....
       — rebel.
    • Titus Junius Brutus
      Titus Junius Brutus

      Titus Junius Brutus was the eldest son of the traditional founder of the Roman Republic, the Patrician Lucius Junius Brutus.A staunch monarchist, Titus - along with his brother Tiberius, his uncle Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, his cousins Sextus, Spurius and Arruns Tarquinius - attempted to restore the Tarquinii to the throne of Rome....
       — rebel.
  • Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus
    Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus

    Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus was a Ancient Rome politician and general of the 1st century BC and one of Julius Caesar's assassins....
     — commander and another one of Caesar's assassins.
  • Decimus Junius Brutus Callaicus
    Decimus Junius Brutus Callaicus

    Decimus Junius Brutus Callaicus was a Ancient Rome politician and general of the 2nd century BC. Brutus led the Roman legions in the conquest of western Iberian peninsula after the death of Viriathus, chieftain of the Lusitanians....
     — commander and consul of Hispania Ulterior
    Hispania Ulterior

    During the Roman Republic, Hispania Ulterior was a region of Hispania roughly located in Baetica and in the Guadalquivir Valley of modern Spain and extending to all of Lusitania and Gallaecia ....
     from 138 BC to 136 BC.


Other people and things called Brutus

  • Brutus (Cicero)
    Brutus (Cicero)

    Cicero's Brutus is a history of Ancient Rome oratory....
    , a history of Roman oratory by Cicero
    Cicero

    Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Ancient Rome philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Constitution of the Roman Republic. Cicero is widely considered one of Rome's greatest rhetoric and prose stylists....
    , named after Caesar
    Caesar

    Caesar or C?sar may refer to the following:...
    's assassin.
  • Brutus of Troy
    Brutus of Troy

    Brutus or Brute of Troy is a legendary descendant of the Troy hero Aeneas, was known in medieval British legend as the eponymous founder and first king of Great Britain....
     who, according to legend, founded Britain.
  • Brutus Greenshield
    Brutus Greenshield

    Brutus Greenshield was a legendary king of the Britons as accounted by Geoffrey of Monmouth. He was the son of King Ebraucus.Brutus, called Greenshield, was the eldest of twenty sons and the only remaining son of Ebraucus in Great Britain at the time of his death....
    , legendary king of the Britons.
  • Brutus de Villeroi
    Brutus de Villeroi

    Brutus de Villeroi was a France in the nineteenth century engineer of the 19th century, born as Brutus Villeroi in the city of Tours and soon moved to Nantes, who developed some of the first operational submarines, and the first submarine of the United States Navy, the Alligator in 1862....
    , 19th century French engineer.
  • Brutus (schooner of war), a ship in the Texas Navy
    Texas Navy

    The Texas Navy was the official navy of the Republic of Texas.There were three Texas Navies. The second was re-established in 1958 by Governor Price Daniel....
    .
  • Bluto
    Bluto

    Bluto is a cartoon character created in 1932 by Elzie Crisler Segar as a one-time character, named "Bluto the Terrible", in his Thimble Theatre comic strip ; he made his first appearance September 12 of that year....
     (sometimes known as "Brutus"), a cartoon character from "Popeye".
  • Brutus
    Brutus (band)

    Brutus is a Czechs rock music musical group with a long tradition. They call their style true bigbeat Brutus was established in 1967 under the name Mandragora....
    , a Czech rock band.
  • Brutus Buckeye
    Brutus Buckeye

    Brutus Buckeye is the athletics mascot of The Ohio State University. Brutus is a student dressed in Buckeye colors with a headpiece resembling an Ohio Buckeye....
    , the mascot of The Ohio State University.
  • Brutus, New York
    Brutus, New York

    Brutus is a town in Cayuga County, New York, New York, United States. The population was 4,777 at the 2000 census. The name was assigned by a clerk interested in classics....
    , a town in Cayuga County, New York, in the USA.
  • Brutus Jeans
    Brutus Jeans

    Brutus Jeans was a United Kingdom clothing company founded in 1966 by brothers Keith and Alan Freedman, who were 18 and 17 years old at the time, respectively....
    , maker of denim apparel in the 1970s and '80s.
  • Brutus (Canadian band)
    Brutus (Canadian band)

    Brutus is a rock band formed in 1969. It consisted of Walter Zwolinski as vocalist, Tom Wilson as bassist, Michael Magann on trumpet, Lance Wright on drums, Sonny Wingay on guitar, and Bill Robb on sax and trombone ....
    , a 1970s Canadian band.
  • Joel Brutus
    Joel Brutus

    Joel Brutus is a male judoka from Haiti, who won the silver medal in the men's heavyweight division at the 2003 Pan American Games.He represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece....
     (born 1974), a Haitian judoka.
  • "Junius Brutus", the pen name of the author Charles Blount
    Charles Blount (deist)

    Charles Blount was a England deism and controversialist....
    .
  • "Brutus" , the pen name of Robert Yates
    Robert Yates (politician)

    Robert Yates was a United States politician well known for his Anti-Federalism stances. Most scholars believe that he was the author of a series of sixteen articles written against the ratification of the United States Constitution under the pseudonym Brutus after Marcus Junius Brutus, who helped assassinate Julius Caesar in order to preser...
    .
  • Brutus (1862v1884), one of the eight South Devon Railway Dido class
    South Devon Railway Dido class

    The eight Dido class locomotives were 0-6-0 saddle tank broad gauge locomotives operated on the South Devon Railway Company and Cornwall Railway and associated other adjacent railways....
     steam locomotives.
  • Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake, ring name of American professional wrestler Edward Leslie
    Edward Leslie

    Edward Harrison "Ed" Leslie is an United States professional wrestling, best known for his work in the World Wrestling Entertainment under the ring name Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake....
     (born 1957).
  • Roman Czerniawski
    Roman Czerniawski

    Roman Czerniawski was a Polish Air Force Captain and Allies#World War II double agent during World War II, using the codename Brutus....
     (1910–1985), a World War II
    World War II

    World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
     double agent
    Double agent

    "Double agent" is a counterintelligence term for someone who pretends to spy on a target organization on behalf of a controlling organization, but in fact is loyal to the target organization....
     code-named BRUTUS.
  • Brutus, Lódz Voivodeship
    Brutus, Lódz Voivodeship

    Brutus is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kielczygl?w, within Pajeczno County, L?dz Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately east of Kielczygl?w, north of Pajeczno, and south-west of the regional capital L?dz....
     (central Poland).
  • B is for Brutus, a song from the third album by The Hives, Tyrannosaurus Hives
    Tyrannosaurus Hives

    Tyrannosaurus Hives is the third full-length album by The Hives, released on July 20, 2004. It is their first album since Veni Vidi Vicious from 2000....
    .
  • Brutus, name of the evil robot army commander in the webcomic Anema: Age of the Robots.
  • Brutus Stone


Other Uses

The House of Brutii is a playable faction in the video game Rome:Total War.