“He said that orators are like frogs: these croak in the water, while those croak at the waterclock.”
τοὺς ῥήτορας ἔφη ὁμοίους εἶναι τοῖς βατράχοις· τοὺς μὲν γὰρ ἐν ὕδατι κελαδεῖν, τοὺς δὲ πρὸς κλεψύδραν.
-Fragment from the Gnomologium Vaticanum, 743.n.167
I didn’t even know that a gnomalogium was a thing. We should change the blog’s tagline again!
Are there any good descriptions of the internal functions of a waterclock? or laws/customs governing its use?
You’ve got me stumped there! Material culture has always been my weakest point.