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Portia feared that Brutus would not take her into his confidence because she might betray his secrets under torture. In order to test herself on this, she inflicted a sever thigh wound on herself to see if she could stand the pain. Finding that she could, she told Brutus what she had done and insisted that because of that, he should take her into his confidence. He then told her of the plan to kill Julius Caesar.

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