[continued] high in the joints, which create many folds across the forehead. Some are seated with the fingers of their hands interwoven, holding within them the tired knee; others with one knee over the other, upon which they rest the hand, which receives within it the elbow, whose hand goes to support the bearded chin of some bent old man.

[381] How an angry figure is to be made.
For the angry figure you will make him hold someone by the hair, with the head twisted toward the ground, and with one of his knees on the ribs, and with the right arm raise the fist on high; let this one have the hair raised, the eyebrows low and drawn together, the teeth clenched, and the two corners at the sides of the mouth arched, the neck thick, and in front, from bending toward the enemy, full of wrinkles.

[382] How a man in despair is represented.
For the despairing man you will make him strike himself with a knife, and with his hands have torn his garments, and let one of these hands be at work tearing open the wound; and make him with his feet apart, and the legs somewhat bent, and the body likewise inclined toward the ground, with hair torn and dishevelled.

[383] On the appropriateness of the limbs.
And I remind you again that you should take great care in giving the limbs to the figures, so that they appear, besides being in keeping with the size of the body, also similarly in keeping with the age; that is, the young with few muscles in the limbs, and veins, and of delicate surface, and rounded limbs of pleasing colour. In men let them be sinewy and full of muscles. In old men let them be [continued]