Tuesday, April 09, 2024
Marks of a Proud Man
Augustine, Sermons 160.3 (Patrologia Latina, vol. 38, col. 874; tr. Edmund Hill):
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But this proud fellow, with his nose in the air, and his gobbling throat, and his big words, and his puffed out cheeks, he sneers at Christ crucified.The translation is loose, e.g. there is no nose in the Latin. It might be worthwhile rummaging around in Richard Foerster's Scriptores Physiognomonici Graeci et Latini for parallels, but I'm too lazy to do it.
sed superbus iste, erecta cervice, tumenti gutture, elata lingua, inflatis buccis irridet Christum crucifixum.
