. Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... fest by his gestures alone. FromGreece, or rather from Egypt, the art was brought toHome, and in the reign of Augustus was the greatdelight of that Emperor and his friend , of Alexandria, was the first to introduceit to the Roman public, but he had a dangerous rival in Pylades. The lat-ter was magnificent, pathetic, and affecting, while Bathyllus was gay andsportive. All Koine was split into factions about their respective mer-its. Athena-us speaks of a distinguished performer of hi
. Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... fest by his gestures alone. FromGreece, or rather from Egypt, the art was brought toHome, and in the reign of Augustus was the greatdelight of that Emperor and his friend , of Alexandria, was the first to introduceit to the Roman public, but he had a dangerous rival in Pylades. The lat-ter was magnificent, pathetic, and affecting, while Bathyllus was gay andsportive. All Koine was split into factions about their respective mer-its. Athena-us speaks of a distinguished performer of his own time (hedied A. 1). 11)4) named Memphis, whom he calls the dancing philoso-pher, because he showed what the Pythagorean philosophy could do byexhibiting in silence everything with stronger evidence than they couldwho professed to teach the arts of language. In the reign of Nero, a cel-ebrated pantomimist who had heard that the cynic philosopher Deme-trius spoke of the art with contempt, prevailed upon him to witnesshis performance, with the result that the cynic, more and more aston-. O^*** FlG. 63. mallebt.] HISTORY OF GESTURE LANGUAGE. 287 ished, at lust cried out aloud, Man, I not only see, but I hear what youdo, for to me you appear to speak with your hands! Lueiau, who narrates this iu his work De Saltatione, gives anothertribute to the taleut of, perhaps, the same performer. A barbarianprince of Pontus (the story is told elsewhere of Tyridates, King ofArmeuia), having come to Koine to do homage to the Emperor Nero,and been taken to see the pantomimes, was asked on his departure by theEmperor what present he would have as a mark of his favor. The bar-barian begged that he might have the principal pantomimist, and uponbeing asked why he made such an odd request, replied that he hadmany neighbors who spoke such various and discordant languages thathe found it difficult to obtain any interpreter who could understandthem or explain his commands; but if he had the dancer
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