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Cicero on physiognomy (1)

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05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore


 		Keywords
omens
physiognomy
Rome
Period
1st century CE
Roman Empire 		Channel
Roman philosophers and scholars

Text
Cicero, Pro Roscio Comodeo 20:
Don’t that head and those eyebrows so closely shaven seem to reek of evil intent and scream out sharp practice? If a person’s silent face allows any conjecture, doesn’t Chaerea’s whole body, from the tips of his toes to the top of his head, seem to unite in showing him made of cheating and trickery. His eyes, brows, forehead, in sum, the whole face, which is the speech of the unspoken mind, has brought people to commit crimes of deception.

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Cicero, Pro Roscio Comodeo 20

Bibliography

Barton 1994, 112-113Barton, Tamsyn. Power and Knowledge, Astrology, Physiognomics, and Medicine under the Roman Empire. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 1994.

Amar Annus


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