FanGraphs Audio: Eau de Dayn Perry

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July 25, 2016

Episode 670
Dayn Perry is a contributor to CBS Sports’ Eye on Baseball and the author of three books — one of them not very miserable. He’s also the deeply unimportant guest on this edition of FanGraphs Audio.

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scooter262
7 years ago

Dayn was correct when he mentioned that Cicero’s tongue was stabbed with a hairpin. However, he was already dead when this happened:

“Antony’s wife Fulvia took Cicero’s head, pulled out his tongue, and jabbed it repeatedly with her hairpin in final revenge against Cicero’s power of speech”

— Wikipedia

So, would Dayn like to change his answer? Having his words live forever, so long as some rival’s wife (Ms. Cistulli, mayhaps?) could prick his tongue after his death.

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raws
7 years ago
Reply to  scooter262

…The attendants were terror-struck, thinking that more soldiers were coming, and Laenas, who had actually once won a court case with Cicero’s support, pulled his head out of the litter and proceeded to cut it off. It took three blows and some sawing through because of his inexperience, and he also cut off the hand with which Cicero had composed the speeches…

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