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''Sutor, ne ultra crepidam'' is a Latin expression meaning literally "Shoemaker, not beyond the shoe", used to warn people to avoid passing judgment beyond their expertise.〔 Its origin is set down in Pliny the Elder's ''Naturalis Historia'' (85〔 ISBN 0-199-53953-7; ISBN 978-0-19953-953-6.〕 (Loeb IX, 323-325) ) where he records that a shoemaker (''sutor'') had approached the painter Apelles of Kos to point out a defect in the artist's rendition of a sandal (''crepida'' from Greek ''krepis''), which Apelles duly corrected. Encouraged by this, the shoemaker then began to enlarge on other defects he considered present in the painting, at which point Apelles advised him that ''ne supra crepidam sutor iudicaret''〔 (a shoemaker should not judge beyond the shoe),〔 which advice, Pliny observed, had become a proverbial saying. The English essayist William Hazlitt most likely coined the term "Ultracrepidarian" as first used publicly in a ferocious letter to William Gifford, the editor of ''The Quarterly Review'': :1819 HAZLITT ''Letter to W. Gifford'' Wks. 1902 I. 368 You have been well called an Ultra-Crepidarian critic. (''Oxford English Dictionary 2nd ed.'') A related English proverb is "''A cobbler should stick to his last''" (a ''last'' being the wooden pattern used to mould the shoe). == References == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sutor, ne ultra crepidam」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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