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Observation of ears and eyes (1)

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02 Religious and ideological symbols and iconographic motifs
02 Religious and ideological symbols and iconographic motifs
05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore


 		Keywords
Byzantium
omens
physiognomy
Period
13th century CE
Byzantine Empire 		Channel
Christian-Syriac philosophers and scholars

Text
Bar Hebraeus, Laughable Stories 20:
696. He who has large ears is like unto the ass in his movements, for behold, those dogs which have small ears are very swift and active in their movements.
697. He who has deep-set eyes is cunning like the ape, and he who has very prominent eyes is simple like the ass. …
701. He who has blue or gray eyes is a timid man.
702. The man whose eyes are absolutely colourless is a fool, even like the goat. …
707. He whose eyes have swift motions is a plunderer, even as the hawk.

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

Bibliography

Budge 1897, 179-180Budge, 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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