Magno capite, acutis oculis, ore rubicundo, ad modum
Magnis pedibus;[259]
Ballio,
Cum hirquina barba;
Plesidippus, in the Rudens,
Adulescentem strenua facie, rubicundum, fortem;
Harpax, in the same play,
Recalvom ac silonem senem, statutum, ventriosum
Tortis superciliis, contracta fronte, etc.—
in such a way as to show how real they were to his imagination in their outward semblance as well as in the inward springs of their actions. Or he brings before us some peculiarity in the dress or manner of his personages by some graphic touch, as that of the disguised sycophant of the Trinummus,—