Sep 10, 2024
The Sharpest Tongue (2)
There is, of course, a downside to being sharp tongued and every ready with the perfect put-down, as the fate of Zoilus reveals. He was a scholar living in the 4th century BC from the Thracian town of Amphipolis. According to the Roman historian, Vitruvius, poor Zoilus met with a grisly fate, either stoned in Chios or thrown alive on to a funeral pyre at Smyrna. Either way, Vitruvius opined, his…
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