cassiodorous

Updated: May 2, 2025

Cassiodorous, speaking of them, says: "Men whose eloquent hands had a tongue, as it were, on the tip of each finger men who spoke while they were silent, and knew how to make a recital without opening their mouths men, in short, whom Polyhymnia had formed in order to show that there was no necessity for articulation in order to convey our thoughts."

R. J. Broadbent - A History of Pantomime