[103]
Again, there is the
somewhat unusual gesture in which the hand is
hollowed and raised well above the shoulder with a
motion suggestive of exhortation. The tremulous
motion now generally adopted by foreign schools is,
however, fit only for the stage. I do not know why
some persons disapprove of the movement of the
fingers, with their tops converging, towards the
mouth. For we do this when we are slightly surprised, and at times also employ it to express fear or
entreaty when we are seized with sudden indignation.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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