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SUICIDE (from Lat. sui, of oneself, and cidium, from caedere, to kill), the act of intentionally destroying one's own life. The phenomenon of suicide has at all times attracted a large amount of attention from moralists and social investigators. Its existence ...

... was pursued by his enemies and his troops abandoned him. Thereupon he committed suicide in the mistaken belief that Cleopatra had already done so (30 B.C.). Antony had been married in succession to Fadia, Antonia, Fulvia and Octavia, and left behind him a numb ...

... own wife. On the night before his execution he made an unsuccessful attempt at suicide by opening the veins in his arm.

... er unhappy friend, the poet, Karoline von Gtinderode (1780-1806), who committed suicide, and that with her brother Klemens Brentano, under the title Klemens Brentanos Fruhlingskranz (1844). She also published Dies Buck gehort dent Kdnig (1843), in which she ad ...

... strictly all under the definition of suggestion given above, its usage to SUHL— SUICIDE denote a mental process which produces effects very similar to those producible by suggestion is now so well established that it must be accepted. In auto-suggestion a prop ...

... tion. The last of her liaisons had a tragic ending. M. de la Fresnaye committed suicide in her house, and Mme. de Tencin spent some time in the Chatelet in consequence, but was soon liberated as the result of a declaration of her innocence by the Grand Conseil ...

... e: Eugenius was slain by the soldiers; and two days later Arbogast com-, mitted suicide (September 5-9, 394). From the north-eastern parts of Italy Theodosius passed to Rome, where he had his son Honorius proclaimed emperor under the guardianship of Stilicho. ...

... aintain themselves in a few Northern states; such a declaration meant political suicide everywhere, and they voted it down. The convention divided into two bodies. The Southern body adjourned to Richmond, and the Northern and Border state convention to Baltimo ...

... himself up in Utica for the final struggle against Caesar, and there committed suicide. Augustus gave the town the rank of municipium with full civic rights (Dio Cass. xlix. 16; Pliny, Hist. not. v. 4, 24); its inhabitants were enrolled in the Quirinal tribe ...