Not more so than those who gave them their practice.

Phedro

They have provided most of the circuses that roam around the world with freaks.

Ursus

They had a great knowledge of surgery.

Phedro

Yes. They had an amusing way of putting young children into a press—young children whose existence it would have been very uncomfortable to admit in certain glittering circles. This press was shaped like a bottle so that the growth became abnormal, and when the press was lifted the human form had already attained the shape of a bottle. They could also print everlastingly rather strange expressions upon the human countenance.

Ursus [starts]

Yes, yes, I have heard of that.

Phedro