On Phyfiognomy. 41 p 



thors* on the fubjeft, fufficiently fhew that 

 phyfiognomy was much culnvated as a fcience 

 among the Greeks about this period. The pro- 

 feflbrs of phyfiognomy however appear Too n to 

 have conneded with it fomething. of the mar- 

 vellous, as we may fufped from the ftory told 

 of Apelles by Apion, Imaginem adeo fmilitudinis 

 indijcreta pinxit ut (incredibile di£lu) Apion gram- 

 maticus Jcriptum reliquerit quemdam ex facie hominum 

 addivinantem (quoi metopojcopos vacant) ' ex ^ its 

 dixijfe aut future mortis annos, aut praterita.f 

 From the known praftice of the Pythagorean 

 School, J whofe novitiates were all fufejeacd to 

 the phyfiognomic obfervation' of the teachers, 

 it is not improbable that the firfi phyfiognomifts, 

 by profefllon among the Greeks, || were of that 



'" * Hermes Trifmeglftus, Alcliyndus, Helenus, Loxiai, 

 Pharaotes Indus (mentioned by Philoftratqs) are alfo men- 

 tioned as writers on phyfiognomy, but little more feems 

 to be known of them in this refped, than the traditional 

 quotation of their names. VoiT. de Nat. Ait. Z^. I. cap. V. 

 § 19. y . 



+ Pliny. Nat. Hid. lib. XXXV. § 35',^ par. 9. 



t Aul. Cell, nbi fup. Mos Pythagor'seis erat per figna 

 in corpora conftituta venientes ad eos judicare, utrum 

 admeliorem vitam apti forent necne. Natura enim ipfa 

 qua animis confingit corpora inllrumenta eis congrua 

 fubminiftrat, imaginefque animarum in corporibus in- 

 dicat, per quas et animarum ingenia in hac arte periti 

 deprehendere poflunt. Proc. in Alcib. prim. PJat. 



II There were fuch probably among the ancient Indians. 

 Vid. the preceding note •. 



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