From jkirkpatrick@bolchazy.com Wed Mar 8 14:36:33 2000 Received: from mxu3.u.washington.edu (mxu3.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.7]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id OAA43564 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 14:36:32 -0800 Received: from mail.kwom.com (root@mail.kwom.com [206.185.16.5]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id OAA27573 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 14:36:30 -0800 Received: from bolchazy.com (usr-1-27.kwom.com [206.185.17.155]) by mail.kwom.com (8.9.2/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA25934 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 17:35:21 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <38C6D4FE.384567DA@bolchazy.com> Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 16:32:30 -0600 From: John Kirkpatrick X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: classics@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: carbingestion References: <495F81875B74D311A94200805F952E18552F29@trexchaus1.tracor.com> <3.0.6.32.20000308171646.011b6100@popp.bgsu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Yes, I believe so. Another woman, whose name I have forgotten. Was it Servillia? I will look when I get home and report in the morning, but by then some else may be able to retrieve this information. John "Philip S. Peek" wrote: > Brutus' wife Porcia is said to have commited suicide by swallowing hot > coals (Plutarch, Brutus, 53). Anyone know of other examples of someone who > is said to have commited suicide in the same way? .