In this fanciful recognition of the word omo ( homo , man) in the human face, so written as to place the two o ’s between the outer strokes of the m , the former represent the eyes, and the latter the nose and cheekbones:⁠—

Brother Berthold, a Franciscan monk of Regensburg, in the thirteenth century, makes the following allusion to it in one of his sermons. See Wackernagel, Deutsches Lesebuch , I 678. The monk carries out the resemblance into still further detail:⁠—