From jkirkpatrick@bolchazy.com Thu Mar 9 07:48:05 2000 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id HAA19034 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 07:48:04 -0800 Received: from mail.kwom.com (root@mail.kwom.com [206.185.16.5]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id HAA10676 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 07:48:03 -0800 Received: from bolchazy.com (usr-1-01.kwom.com [206.185.17.129]) by mail.kwom.com (8.9.2/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA32373 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 10:46:58 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <38C7C6C8.C84F7B0E@bolchazy.com> Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 09:44:08 -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> <38C6D4FE.384567DA@bolchazy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Darn it! I forgot to look this up! Anyone who wants to can look at Grise's book on Roman suicide. Also Varro talks a bit about strange methods of offing oneself. John John Kirkpatrick wrote: > 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? -- John T. Kirkpatrick Editor Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc. jkirkpatrick@bolchazy.com A Better Future Through the Lessons of the Past .