(Pollux's Catagories are for intented for Tragedy, with only a few notes on Comedy)

6 OLD MEN:

Smooth-Faced, White, Grizzled, Black-Haired, Flaxen and More Flaxen

7 YOUNG MEN:

Common, Curled, More Curled, Graceful, Horrid, Pale and Less Pale

3 SLAVES:

Leathern, Peaked-Beard, Flat Nose

10 WOMEN:

Hoary dishevelled, Freed Old Woman, Old Domestic, Middle Aged, Leathern, Pale-Dishevelled, Pale Middle Aged, Shaven Virgin, Second Shaven Virgin, Girl

SPECIALIST MASKS*

Achilles Mourning, Tyro with mottled cheeks, Actaeon, A Blind Phineas, Euippem, Chiron's Daughter, Nymphs of Mithaeus, Deceit, Drunkenness, Grandfather Sileneus, ...etc (The comic masks, those especially of old comedy, were as like as possible to true persons they represented, or made to appear more ridiculous)

*These masks were for unique characters in certain plays. It would be something not in common with other masks or catagories of masks.

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