Cheek and chin signs

Buccae; Mentum; foveis; fissum

Dimples, an elongated chin with a long face, and a cleft chin are separate features in the catalogue.

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Nine Books on the Nature of Things

Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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Meaning

Dimples, an elongated chin with a long face, and a cleft chin are separate features in the catalogue. The cleft-chin description combines fidelity with concealed or double speech, illustrating the system’s internally mixed character assignments. The local bodily terms describe facial form, but the source’s proposed connection with temperament or moral disposition is not a reliable inference.

Places to read

  1. Book 9 · Signature · Passage 29Latin“Mentum fissum”