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[LA] Quis hoc adagium ignoret, quod in multis linguis reperitur? Quod quidem adhibetur cum quis prima rerum fronte conspecta decipitur (antiquitus enim philosophi barbam gerere dicebantur).
#lingualatina #latin #sapientialatina #proverbialatina #latinedisco #scholalatina
Plutarchi locus afferri solet (“Quaestiones convivales”, 709b) velut fons, neque tamen ibi de proverbio agitur, quod nobis tradi potius videtur ab illo Arsenio, adagiorum collectore, cuius haec sunt verba: ἀπὸ πώγωνος φιλόσοφοι.
[EN] ‘Clothes don’t make the man’, ‘You can’t judge a book by its cover’ (but literally, ‘A beard doesn’t make a philosopher’: it was a commonplace in antiquity that philosophers normally sported a beard).
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