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By [Your Name] 1. The Historical Context: What is the "Pugio Bruti"? The term Pugio Bruti translates to "Brutus' Dagger," referencing Marcus Junius Brutus, the Roman senator and key figure in Julius Caesar’s assassination. Historical sources, like the Res Gestae Divi Augusti and ancient dramatizations (e.g., Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar ), mention the pugio (a short Roman dagger) as a symbolic weapon. However, no physical dagger of Brutus survives, and ancient writers describe a specific blade only in the Historia Augusta , which may conflate legends with history.