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Observation of voice (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) Speech omens (Kataduqqû) 05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore 05.02 Omen interpretation 05.02.07 Speech omens (Kataduqqû)	Keywords Byzantium omens physiognomy
Period 13th century CE Byzantine Empire	Channel Christian-Syriac philosophers and scholars

Text
Bar Hebraeus, Laughable Stories 20:
708. He who has a dense body is a fool like the ass, especially if he has a loud voice.
709. The man who at the beginning speaks with a loud voice and ends his speech in a thin, small voice is one who grieves and who bears many burdens like an ox.
710. The man whose voice is feeble is timid like the lamb, and he whose voice is sharp and disjointed is a fool like the goat.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Bar Hebraeus, Laughable Stories 20

Bibliography

Budge 1897, 180

Budge, E. A. Wallis. The Laughable Stories collected by Mar Gregory John Bar-Hebraeus, Maphrian of the East from A.D. 1264 to 1286. The Syriac text edited with an English Translation. London: Luzac and Co 1897.

Amar Annus

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