Everyone knows Rizal took a page from Jesus Christ, saying as his last words “consummatum est” (“It is finished” in Latin). Yet that’s not the whole story. The British author of Rizal: Philippine Nationalist and Martyr Austin Coates wrote: “With a normal pulse, Rizal quietly uttered ‘Consummatum est, o tempora o mores! Quo usque tandem abutere, cives, patientia nostra!’”. In other words, Rizal also quoted the famous orator Cicero: “It is finished. O the times, o the morals! How long shall you abuse our patience, citizens!” Coates later commented that the complete final words of Jose Rizal signalled his despair over how his fellow Filipinos lacked passion for the revolutionary cause.
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