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The gestures of which I have thus far spoken are
such as naturally proceed from us simultaneously
with our words. But there are others which indicate things by means of mimicry. For example,
you may suggest a sick man by mimicking the
gesture of a doctor feeling the pulse, or a harpist by
a movement of the hands as though they were
plucking the strings. But this is a type of gesture
which should be rigorously avoided in pleading.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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