Dürer. Then turn the panel round.
Gryn. Why does Cato say amongst his other oracles: “The forehead is before the back part of the head?”
Dürer. How stupid you are! Don’t you see in every man the forehead in front of the back part of the head?
Gryn. There are some people whose backs I would rather see than their faces!
Dürer. And I gladly, e.g., such buyers as you, and soldiers!
Vel. Cato was of opinion that the presence of the master was more effective for the oversight of his affairs than his absence. For the rest, why has he such long forelocks?
Dürer. Do you speak of these hairs over the forehead?
Vel. Yes.
Dürer. For many months he had no barber at hand as we have in Spain.
Vel. Why have you covered with hair, the hairless part (glabella)[83] against its etymology?