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97
"What quotes could you supply me about MEN using POISON? I hope I gave you enough to work with, if not then I apologize"

Answer
Hello,

Yes, men do indeed use poison. Here are just a few examples.

Fogaban


On the twentieth day of the siege there was great rejoicing in the camp of Pa-Kur, because in one place the wires had been cut and a squad of spearmen had reached the main siege reservoir, emptying their barrels of toxic kanda, a lethal poison extracted from one of Gor's desert shrubs.
Tarnsman of Gor Book 1     Page 179

Saphrar was a short, fat, pinkish man, with short legs and arms; he had quick bright eyes and a tiny, roundish red-lipped mouth; upon occasion he moved his small, pudgy fingers, with rounded scarlet nails, rapidly, as though rubbing the gloss from a tarn disk or feeling the texture of a fine cloth; his head, like that of many merchants, had been shaved; his eyebrows had been removed and over each eye four golden drops had been fixed in the pinkish skin; he also had two teeth of gold, which were visible when he laughed, the upper canine teeth, probably containing poison
Nomads of Gor     Book 4     Page 85

"They are poison teeth," remarked Harold, "a Turian affectation but quite deadly, being filled with the venom of the Ost."
Nomads of Gor     Book 4     Page 187

Sullius Maximus, who himself dabbled in poetry, and poisons, was a man of high culture, and his opinions in such matters were greatly respected.
Raiders of Gor     Book 6     Page 224

"Sullius Maximus," he said, "invented such a drug. He tested it, by pin pricks, on the limbs of a captured enemy, paralyzing him from the neck down. He kept him seated at his right side, as a guest in regal robes, for more than a week. When he tired of the sport he had him killed."
Marauders of Gor     Book 9     Page 19




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