Gryn. Do you call the practical knowledge of your art a waste of time? What would you call that of another’s?
Vel. First of all you have covered the top of this head with many and straight hairs when the top is called vertex, as if a vortex, from the curling round of the hair, as we see in rivers when the water rolls round and round (convolvit).
Dürer. Stupidly spoken; you don’t reflect that it is badly combed, following the custom of his age.
Vel. His forehead is unevenly bent.
Dürer. As a soldier he had received a wound at the Trebia when he was saving his father.
Gryn. Where did you read that?
Dürer. In the lost decads of Livy.
Vel. The temples are too much swollen.
Dürer. Hollow temples would be the sign of madness!
Vel. I should like to be able to see the back part of the head.