Ultracrepidarian
("not beyond the shoe") is a Latin language, Latin List of Latin expressions, expression used to tell others not to pass judgment beyond their expertise. Origin The phrase is recorded in Book 35 of Pliny the Elder's ''Natural History (Pliny), Natural History'' as ("Let the cobbler (job), cobbler not judge beyond the ") and ascribed to the ancient Greeks, Greek ancient Greek painting, painter Apelles of Kos. Supposedly, Apelles would put new paintings on public display and hide behind them to hear and act on their reception.. On one occasion, a shoemaking, shoemaker (Latin ) noted that one of the crepides in a painting had the wrong number of straps and was so delighted when he found the error corrected the next day that he started in on criticizing the legs. Indignant, Apelles came from his hiding place and admonished him to confine his opinions to the shoes. Pliny then states that since that time it had become proverbial. History The expression became current again during the ...
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