Tuesday, July 27, 2021
What Stupidity Looks Like
Cyprian of Antioch, Confession and Martyrdom 13 (Coptic version, tr. Anthony Alcock):
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I saw the likeness of stupidity with a head as small as a nut...Id. (Greek version, with numbering 4.2, tr. Ryan Bailey):
I saw ... the form of folly, having the head of a nut...Cf. Adamantius the Sophist, Physiognomonica B30, in Richard Foerster, ed., Scriptores Physiognomonici, Vol. I (Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1893), p. 381 (tr. Ian Repath):
εἶδον ... εἶδος μωρίας, κεφαλὴν ἔχον καρύου...
A very small head indicates an insensible and unintelligent man...
κεφαλὴ μικρὰ πάνυ ἀναίσθητον καὶ ἀσύνετον σημαίνει...
