Hallo friends!
I had nothing to do this evening and I was looking at this site:
http://www.anconanostra.com/It's a site describing the history and traditions of my town. It's all written in slang.
In the particular section I linked here, there's a short list of important men who visited my town in the past.
Among them was Lucius Cornelius Cinna, a Roman Consul who died in my town in 84 a.C.
The site above says he died by the hands of his soldiers, who mutinied and killed him "with stones".
Now, considering the source from which that quote is taken, a research on this will almost surely be pointless, but I'm always looking for traces of the use of the sling in ancient times and I think it won't take long to clear this point.
So I begun looking for further info on the death of this Lucius Cinna and I read about him on these books:
G. Geraci, A. Marcone,
"Storia Romana", Le Monnier Università, Florence 2008
and on the Treccani Encyclopedia, 2010.
Neither the first nor the second text says much about him, and even less about his death.
It's also 3.30 am now so I can't go to the Archaeological Library right now
But if you have any title I may look for there, just tell me!
As we say, alea jacta est
Greetings,
Mauro.