414 0» Phyftogmmy. 



Id verbum fignificat mores naturafque homtnum 

 conje^iatiotie quddam, de oris et vultus ingenio deque 

 totius corporis filo atque habitu Jcifcitari. It is not 

 improbable (if this be true) that Pythagoras 

 acquired a great part of his phyfiognomical 

 knowledge, and his attachnncnt to that fciencc 

 during his travels j the Indians* and Egyp- 

 tians f being great profefTors of phyfiognomy. 



In the time of Socrates, it appears not only 

 to have been ftudied as a fcience, but adopted 

 as a profeffion, of which the known ftory of 



• Nicoftratus fpeaking of the Indians in his book de 

 Nuptiis, fays that in marrying they judge of their wives 

 by their appearance, and declare they are never deceived ; 

 among the phyfiognomical marks he mentions thefe, 

 benigni enim oculi, fvmmam animi pulchritudinem comitantur, tt 

 Jieri folet ut qui non excandcfcit , nee facile irafcitur, aut bile 

 movetur, facie/n fplendidam ferenamque hahet. Malignus et 

 dolofus verb, Jlatim et oculis tranpverse implacideque tuetur. 

 ^ui Jlolidus ac Jimplex ejl, pupillas et oculos patent es gerit 

 vt aftni et oves . Cuifuperciliaconjungunturimprobuseli. Cujus 

 /uperficies in vultu non rubet, fed ob/cura caliginofaque cji 

 nunquafn ullo modo exhilaratur. Ceterum ejufmodi notte, non 

 modo virginibus et mulieribus, fed etiam 'viris infunt. 

 Raynaud! Moral. Difcip. p. 367. See alfo Philoft. Vit. 

 Apoll. Tyan, lib. 111. cap. 30, p. 83. mKKa [xsv yap 

 C^fiaX/*oi, &c. & lib. III. cap. 5. 



f AivuTTTioio- jUEv yap rota- Tratri, &CC. Gronov. Not. in Aul. 

 Gell. lib. I, cap. 9. from the phyfiognomy of Adaman- 

 tjus. See alfo Jambl. in Vit. Pythag. lib. I. cap. 17, 

 <!rafa7Ktua<riAEVii h auTu, &c. 



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