The Reason Why Napoleon Always Hid His Hand

Ill-Mannered

Jastrow – Wikimedia Commons

One famous statue that had stood on Salamis Island off the coast of Greece – a likeness of the poet and politician Solon – also exhibits this pose.

As Aeschines the orator explained in 346 B.C.: “To speak with the arm outside the cloak… was regarded then as an ill-mannered thing, and they carefully refrained from doing it.”

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