The earliest available sources for any record of Caesar's death seem to the Roman historians Suetonius and Plutarch. Both of them say Caesar spoke no last words.

Plutarch wrote:

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And it is said by some writers that although Caesar defended himself against the rest and darted this way and that and cried aloud, when he saw that Brutus had drawn his dagger, he pulled his toga down over his head and sank, either by chance or because pushed there by his murderers, against the pedestal on which the statue of Pompey stood.

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Suetonius does report that some people claimed Caesar said in Greek: "You too, my child?" but he doesn't believe that story.

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When he saw that he was beset on every side by drawn daggers, he muffled his head in his robe, and at the same time drew down its lap to his feet with his left hand, in order to fall more decently, with the lower part of his body also covered. And in this wise he was stabbed with three and twenty wounds, 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, "You too, my child?"h 3 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.

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That's probably all that be known.
Source(s):
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Caesar*.html

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/Juliu...*.html

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Et_tu,_Brute%3F


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