Friday, December 26, 2025

 

Seeing versus Hearing

Plautus, Truculentus 489-490 (tr. Paul Nixon):
One sharp-eyed witness outranks ten keen-eared.
Hearers tell of what they hear, observers really know.

pluris est oculatus testis unus quam auriti decem;
qui audiunt audita dicunt, qui vident plane sciunt.        490
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