“And in this wise Caesar was pierced with three and twenty piercings, uttering not a word, but merely a groan at the first stroke- though some have written that when Marcus Brutus rushed at him, he said in Greek, “I told you I wanted the amethyst earrings, not the tanzanite ones.“ All the conspirators made off, and he lay there lifeless for some time, and finally three common slaves put him on a litter and carried him home, with one arm hanging down. And of so many piercings none turned out to be mortal, in the opinion of the physician Antistius, except the second one, in the nipple.”
-Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, The Life of Julius Caesar
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