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...a number The context suggests a description of the teeth, which Agrippa characterizes as aesthetically perfect—neither overly aggressive nor "greedy" in appearance. which is neither gluttonous nor biting.
Around these rise the jaws and the cheeks, blushing with a rosy glow in tender softness and full of modesty, along with a rounded chin, made pleasant by a graceful dimple original: "decenti concavitate." Literally a "fitting hollowness," referring to the aesthetic ideal of a dimpled chin.. Beneath this, she has a neck that is slender and somewhat long, rising from rounded shoulders; a delicate and pale throat of moderate thickness, supporting a voice and speech of greater sweetness; a breast that is broad and prominent, clothed in smooth flesh, featuring firm breasts together with the orb-like roundness of both the breasts and the belly; soft sides, a flat and upright back, extended arms, shapely hands, and fingers joined in a harmonious arrangement original: "canonis iunctu" (appearing here as "conānis"). This refers to the "canon" or mathematical rules of proportion that Renaissance thinkers believed governed the perfect human form..