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The conquerors you should make as they charge,with their hair and the other light things appertaining to them streaming to the wind, their brows contracted and the limbs thrust forward inversely, that is, if the right foot is thrust forward the left arm must be thrust forward also.

And if you portray a fallen man you must show where he has slipped and been dragged through the blood-stained mud, and around in the wet earth you must show the imprint of the feet of men and the hoofs of horses that have passed there. You will also represent a horse dragging its dead master, and in the wake of the body its track, as it has been dragged along through the dust and the mud; you must make the van-quished and beaten pale, their brows knit and the skin surmounting the brow furrowed with lines of pain. 

On the sides of the nose there must

be wrinkles forming an arch from the nostrils to the eyes and terminating at the commencement of the latter; the nostrils should be drawn up, whence the wrinkles mentioned above; the arched lips show the upper row of teeth. The teeth should be apart, as with crying and lamentation. One hand shields the frightened eyes, the palm being held towards the enemy ; the other [hand] rests on the ground to sustain the raised body.

You shall portray others shouting in flight with their mouths wide open; you must depict many kinds of weapons lying at the feet of the com-

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