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 Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 9:40 pm
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Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 10:27 am
He choked or threw it up?
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Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 10:36 am
shakes head sadly... no, not the answer... sad
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Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 8:52 am
Lyssan Volgon8 There is a natural antidote(such as a certain food) that he enjoys taking everyday, but he doesn't know its the antidote? Not exactly but you are on the right track in a way... blaugh The vessel it was in made the poison safe?
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Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 8:54 am
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Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 3:11 pm
I have been called to task over this riddle many times... Many people find it difficult to believe my answer... needless to say, it pertains to a very real individual... his name was Mithridates VI of Pontus. Now I do not advise following his methodology or looking up the answer until you give this a very real effort at answering, but if you don't know the answer and wish to look it up, please do. You might learn a bit of history.
and while he was Persian, not Greek as the riddle states, he did rule Greece and from there launched his attacks on Rome...
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Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 4:52 pm
Kerobian In ancient Greece a king was cornered by the Romans. Rather than face the humiliation of being captured, he decided to commit suicide by swallowing poison. The dose he ingested was strong enough to kill a man instantly, yet it had no effect on the king. Why? 
Because he washed it down with the antidote?
"The burning of a book is a sad, sad sight, for even though a book is nothing but ink and paper, it feels as if the ideas contained in the book are disappearing as the pages turn to ashes and the cover and binding--which is the term for the stitching and glue that holds the pages together--blacken and curl as the flames do their wicked work. When someone is burning a book, they are showing utter contempt for all of the thinking that produced its ideas, all of the labor that went into its words and sentences, and all of the trouble that befell the author . . . "
— Lemony Snicket (The Penultimate Peril)
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Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 7:20 pm
Nope. Good guess, but no.
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Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 9:37 pm
Eh, I know there were some people who experimented with taking antidotes everyday, trying to become immune to poison. Did he do that?
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Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 10:09 pm
Yes, Naomi, he most certainly did 3nodding In fact he was well known for this (well know if you are an ancient history buff that is)... wink
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Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 11:50 pm
Mithridates VI of Pontus???
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yes, I googled
emo
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Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 5:11 am
I hadn't meant for the riddle to get so complicated... originally I was keeping history out of it... all the original riddle wanted was the fact that back in his day many rulers took small doses of poison to build up immunities, some times it worked, some times it didn't... in his case it did. But so many people originally questioned me on it's feasibility. Oh well... so we all learned something hmmm? rofl ninja now, Kero, put that hemlock back on the shelf... I don't subscribe to his methodology..... stare
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Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 6:46 am
*Kero swallows it*
Hemlock increases the potency of my own poison, Lyssie.
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Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 6:47 am
stare I'd rather just sit on people, thank you.... stare
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Posted: Sat May 08, 2010 10:50 pm
Hey, why be brutal when you can do things with Finesse?
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