Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Moriones

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

MORIO'NES. Deformed idiots; who were purchased as slaves, and kept in the great Roman houses for the purpose of affording amusement by their want of mental capacity, conjoined, as it always was, with physical malconstruction (Mart. viii. 13. Id. xii. 94. Plin. Ep. ix. 17. 1.), both of which properties are visibly expressed in the annexed figure (Moriones/1.1) from a small bronze statue, in which the eyes and teeth are inserted of silver, and which faithfully illustrates the description given by Martial (vi. 39.) of one of these creatures, acuto capite, et auribus longis, Quae sic moventur, ut solent asellorum.

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  Moriones/1.1