 | GenghisTheHun (167)
12/07/2006 | What this means today is great food. Shakespeare had a different meaning in mind when he wrote the lines.
Brutus is plotting with the conspirators to kill Caesar. Brutus states the lines:
"Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods,
Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds."
Historians think that Brutus is referring to the Roman custom of sacrificing animals to the gods and examining their entrails for omens. Brutus probably means that the conspirators should kill Caesar in a reverent ceremonious way. So in the original it's not a very appetising remark!
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