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TIL Valerius Maximus wrote that Aeschylus, the Athenian author of tragedies, was killed by a tortoise dropped by an eagle. Pliny, in his Naturalis Historiæ, added that Aeschylus had been staying outdoors to avert a prophecy that he would be killed by a falling object.

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