Homer represents Thersites as having a very long head, a deformed face,
and low stature, to which his manners appears to have corresponded.
Leteus Metellus was so small, and his face so deformed, that he appeared
ridiculous to all. Cicero reproached Piso for the deformity of his face,
and the shameful profligacy of his manners. Sallust remarks, that the
pale and deformed visage of Cataline was more like that of a corpse than
of a living man; he was profane, cruel, and capable of the blackest
crimes. Xenocrates had a disagreeable and hideous aspect, for which
reason he often sacrificed to the graces, that they might give him some
beauty; his mind was stupid and dull, and he used to say that “he wanted
spurs to be roused to action.”