Not A Fanatic
Are you familiar with the expression “eyes in the back of your head”? Here we will take a brief look in to the history of an expression that is well known today but has its roots way back in history.
In ‘The Pot of Gold’ by Plautus we are told of the story of Euclio, an old man who is lucky enough to find a pile of gold hidden in his house. His determination to keep the gold hidden is off-set by his paranoid delusions that everyone he meets already knows about the gold and are planning on ways to steal it from him. Euclio is especially wary of his servant, a trusty but somewhat dim ‘old hag’ by the name of Straphyla. It is Euclio’s believe that Straphyla is plotting to steal the gold away from him and he is so paranoid in his thoughts that he claims that she must have eyes in the back of her head.
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When I walk alone on the dark narrow street I have the feeling of "eyes in the back of my head".
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