Autore: Mastrelli, C.A.
Titolo: Lippis et tonsoribus
Periodico: Prometheus
Anno: 2012 - Volume: 38 - Pagina iniziale: 145 - Pagina finale: 152

The saying lippis et tonsoribus notum goes back to Horace, but the coupling of barbers and bleary-eyed people seems to have been already proverbial at the poet’s time. If barbers are traditionally fond of gossip, and therefore well-informed about everything, the same is not true for bleary-eyed people. The paper proposes that the bleary-eyed may have been thought to have contracted this eye-disease due to excessive peeking through chinks in doorposts and window shades. An appendix treats the disease of bleariness in Greek lexikon and literary tradition.




SICI: 0391-2698(2012)38<145:LET>2.0.ZU;2-B
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