On Phyftognomy. 4^3 



Seneca,* thofe already adduced from Pliny f 

 and Aulus Gellius, | and the paffages I am 

 about to mention from Petronius, Plutarch and 

 others, abundantly eftablifh this remark. 



Befide the attention paid to phyfiognomy as 

 a fcience by authors of repute during the period 

 of the Roman empire, it fhould feem alfo that 

 it continued to be praftifed as a ■profeffioriy as 

 well then, as in the claflic age of Grecian phi- 

 lofophy. Plutarch, in his Life of Anthony, tells 

 us of an Egyptian phyfiognomifl: who bade 

 Anthony beware of Odtavius. || Petronius Ar- 

 biter in his Satyricon introduces a perfon faying 



rigida et oljiipa ; adduilo fere vultu, plerumque tacitus, nulla 

 aut rarijjimo cum proximis fermone, eoque tardij/imo, nee fine 

 molli quadam digitorum gefticulatione. ^a omnia ingrata 

 atque arrogantia plena et animadvertit Auguftus in eo, et ex- 

 cu/are tentavit fape apud Senatu7n et populum, profejfus Naiura 

 'vitia ejfe, non Animi. A great part of the charafter of 

 this emperor may be traced not indiftinftly in this defcrip- 



tion I know of no author whatever fo minutely attentive 



to the ftature, features, gefture, manners and way of 

 life, of the perfons fpoken of, as Suetonius. 



• Annon wdes quantum oculis det vigorem Fortitude ? 

 quantum intentionem prudentia ? quantum modefiiam et quietem 

 Reverentia ? quantum Serenitatem latitia ? quantum Rigorem 

 fe'veritai ? quantum Remijfionem kilaritas F Sen. Ep. 1 06, 

 t Nat. Hift. lib. XXXV. § 35. 

 X Lib. I. cap. 9. 



II The phyfiognomic remark of Julius C^far refpefting 

 Anthony and Caffius is well known. 



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