...experiments, combined with the assistance of phrenology and astrology. There have been many nrguments urged against the physiognomical opinions of different individuals...Socrates declared that his assertions were true, and that lie had corrected and curbed all his vicious propensities by means of reason. The opinion of Zopyrus...

...licentious disposition : and a physiognomist observed, in looking into the face of the philosopher, that his heart was the most depraved, immodest, and corrupt, that ever was in the human breast. This nearly cost the satirist his life ; but Socrates upbraided his disciples who wished to punish the physiognomist,...

...an examination by him. What was the surprise of the friends when they heard the physiognomist assert that Socrates was naturally of a licentious disposition,...that his heart was the most depraved, immodest, and corrupted that ever was in the human breast. This assertion nearly cost the man his life, but Socrates...