He squatted with his palms together and was a driveling idiot.

The monk was discovered and escaped, but his temple was razed.
Equilibrists .-- Many individuals have cultivated their senses so acutely that by the eye and particularly by touch they are able to perform almost incredible feats of maintaining equilibrium under the most difficult circumstances Professional rope-walkers have been known in all times.

The Greeks had a particular passion for equilibrists, and called them "neurobates," "oribates," and "staenobates." Blondin would have been one of the latter.

Antique medals showing equilibrists making the ascent of an inclined cord have been found.

The Romans had walkers both of the slack-rope and tight-rope Many of the Fathers of the Church have pronounced against the dangers of these exercises.