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    Posted: 09-Jan-2007 at 16:25
Originally posted by alexandruu

Originally posted by Act of Oblivion

..Socrates..commited suicide in 399BC.. "Crito, i owe a cock to Aslepius. Will you remember to pay the debt?"


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Is this for real ?



..i hope so!!!!...
    
    

Edited by Act of Oblivion - 09-Jan-2007 at 16:26
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Originally posted by Act of Oblivion


..Socrates..commited suicide in 399BC..
"Crito, i owe a cock to Aslepius. Will you remember to pay the debt?"

 
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Is this for real ?
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Originally posted by Dan Carkner

Haha I wonder how many of these were actually said.  Maybe just a tiny fraction of them..?!

True, most "last words" are either dramatized or were never said at all.

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Haha I wonder how many of these were actually said.  Maybe just a tiny fraction of them..?!
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Originally posted by Patrinos

Originally posted by Act of Oblivion

..Archimedes..Greek mathematician, killed 212BC...to invading soldiers...
"Stand, fellow, from my diagram!"

Actually Archimedes said: "Μη μου τους κύκλους τάραττε"(mi mou tous kiklous taratte) and means "Don't disturb my circles" when he experimented something in water.
But I've read your version Act of Oblivion τοο,I don't know which is true.


..i am not sure as to the truth, but this one made me chuckle because it sounds like it was translated by an Englishman!!!!....




    

    
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Nero Caesar - "What an artist dies with me!"

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Originally posted by Patrinos

Originally posted by Act of Oblivion

..Archimedes..Greek mathematician, killed 212BC...to invading soldiers...
"Stand, fellow, from my diagram!"


Actually Archimedes said: "Μη μου τους κύκλους τάραττε"(mi mou tous kiklous taratte) and means "Don't disturb my circles" when he experimented something in water.
But I've read your version Act of Oblivion τοο,I don't know which is true.




    
 
Actually Archimedes was drawing his diagrams in the sand, not water, when the Roman soldiers entered his quarters. He told them to mind his drawings and they promptly slaughtered him.
 
Here're some more, fictional, fmous last worlds:
 
- Sultan: you have any famous last words to say?
- Baron Munchausen (bending on a log, executioner standing over him, waving a sharp axe over his head): Not yet
- Sultan: Not yet!? Is that famous?
 


Edited by Yiannis - 02-Jan-2007 at 05:58
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Originally posted by Leonardo

If Beethoven really said "Plaudite amici comoedia finita est" probably he was citing Augustus ...
    


Yes that's what I would imagine
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Haha Constantine, beat me to it...

On a side note, some other famous last words:

Hannibal - "Liberemus diuturna cura populum Romanum, quando mortem senis exspectare longum censent" - "Let us ease the Roman people of their continual care, who think it long to await the death of an old man"

Che Guevara - "I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man"

Caligula - "Vivo!" - "I live!"

Lord Horatio Nelson - "Thank God I have done my duty!"

- Knights -
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If Beethoven really said "Plaudite amici comoedia finita est" probably he was citing Augustus ...
    

Edited by Leonardo - 02-Jan-2007 at 03:48
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we couldn't find neither;
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Good Point. There are a few contradictory sources.
Most Websites say that the last words of Beethoven were "Plaudite, amici, commedia finita est" (Friends applaud, the comedy is over"). However, the last words of Augustus are shrouded with more mystery and legend. Some exclaim that Augustus's last words were something along the lines of "Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished". Others state that his last words were "Varus, Varus, give me back my legions" (after Battle of Teutoberg Wald). This is suppose is more of legend. Refutes/Comments welcome!
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Augustus' was "Finita la comedia", I believe.
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Ludwig Van Beethoven - "Friends applaud, the comedy is over"

    

Wasn't Augustus?
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FDR - "I have a horrible headache..."

Theodore Roosevelt - "Please put out the light, James."



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Originally posted by Emperor Barbarossa

Jan Zizka - "Make my skin into drumheads for the Bohemian cause."

Wow, I never could find Zizka's last words. One of the best I have heard so far.



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