One man who nearly died in this manner was the son of a man referred to as "Braginoco" by the Portuguese mercenaries who were the proximate cause of that incident. Another (*)  man who died in this manner copied out nearly the entirety of  Medea and passed it off of a philosophical treatise. One man nicknamed for this process was contrasted via that nickname with Leucippus. King Nanda Bayin of Pegu was temporarily struck dumb after responding in 
One man who nearly died in this manner was the son of a man referred to as "Braginoco" by the Portuguese mercenaries who were the proximate cause of that incident. Another (*)  man who died in this manner copied out nearly the entirety of  Medea and passed it off of a philosophical treatise. One man nicknamed for this process was contrasted via that nickname with Leucippus. King Nanda Bayin of Pegu was temporarily struck dumb after responding in this way to a comment that Venice was a kingdom without a King, and Chrysippus died while doing this in response to a drunken donkey's attempts to eat a fig. For ten points, name this action, part of the nickname of the theorist of the atom, Democritus, and part of the name of a Frans Hals painting of a cavalier.
One man who nearly died in this manner was the son of a man referred to as "Braginoco" by the Portuguese mercenaries who were the proximate cause of that incident.
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