Dürer. Do you pluck out the hairs with pincers!
Vel. The hairs in the nose stand out from the nose. But you, such is your ingenuity, will throw the fault from yourself on to the barber.
Dürer. Ignorant that you are! Don’t you remember that the customs of those times were harsh, horrible, boorish?
Vel. You, too, are ignorant. Have you not read that Scipio was one of the most cultivated and polished of all the men of his age, and a lover of what was elegant?
Dürer. This painting gives his likeness as he was, when an exile, at Liternum.
Gryn. The eyebrows are large, and suitable for Latium; the eyelids too hollow, and the cheeks too much sunk.
Dürer. Naturally, from the camp-watches.
Gryn. You are not only a painter, but a rhetorician, well versed in turning off any criticism of your work.
Dürer. As far as I can see, you are well versed in finding faults.
Vel. The picture has the cheeks and lips too much puffed up.