text:  But we would suggest that something else must have weighed with the artist; for if it was an acknowledged principle of Greek art rather to sacrifice a portion of the passion so to speak than to admit a distortion of the features why should Timanthes have felt any scruple in this instance in modifying the expression of the father's countenance in obedience to a known rule of art? Why should he have thought himself obliged to resort to the expedient of concealing the face? We make bold to adopt neither one account nor the other