A story is told of an artist named Apelles who was commissioned to paint Alexander the Great. A shoemaker, after observing that the number of laces on the sandals was incorrect, then proceeded to offer more suggestions, none of which evidently he knew much about. So a term has been created, an “ultracrepidarian,” who evokes a Latin line “shoemaker, noth…
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