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It is desirable also that I should mention the faults
in the use of the hands, into which even experienced
pleaders are liable to fall. As for the gesture of
demanding a cup, threatening a flogging, or indicating
the number 500 by crooking the thumb,1 all of which
are recorded by writers on the subject, I have never
[p. 307]
seen them employed even by uneducated rustics.
1 Le. crooking the thumb against the forefinger to represent the symbol D.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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